2018.06.05

Splatmoji – easier quick pop-up emoji/emoticon input on Linux

Christopher Peterson Blog BASH, dmenu, emoji, emoticons, programming

I previously posted about an emoji-input method using iBus that required jumping through some hoops and ultimately wasn’t a very pretty UX.

But now I’ve rolled my own, and added japanese emoticons/kaomoji as a bonus! I’ve titled it Splatmoji, with respect to its wildcard nature for emotive text input.

Quick start:

# sudo apt-get install rofi xdotool xsel || sudo yum install rofi xdotool xsel
git clone https://github.com/cspeterson/splatmoji.git
cd splatmoji

# Call with default emoji and emoticon data files, copy result to clipboard
./splatmoji copy

# Call with default emoji and emoticon data files, type out result
./splatmoji type

# Call with a specific custom data file, copy result to clipboard
./splatmoji copy /path/to/data/file1 /path/to/data/file2

# sudo apt-get install rofi xdotool xsel || sudo yum install rofi xdotool xsel

git clone https://github.com/cspeterson/splatmoji.git

cd splatmoji

# Call with default emoji and emoticon data files, copy result to clipboard

./splatmoji copy

# Call with default emoji and emoticon data files, type out result

./splatmoji type

# Call with a specific custom data file, copy result to clipboard

./splatmoji copy /path/to/data/file1 /path/to/data/file2

Some suggestions for customizing its configuration, binding it to a key combo in your window manager, using your own emoticon sets, and other bits are in the README.

＼(^▽^＠)ノ