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Emote

Modern popup emoji picker

  • application
  • GUI
  • EMOJI-PICKER
  • DESKTOP
  • Launchable
  • Same app · 2 sources
Official OARS · imported from upstream · official · May 24, 2026 description in en

Description

Emote is a modern emoji picker for Linux 🚀

Written in GTK3, Emote is lightweight and stays out of your way.

Launch the emoji picker with the configurable keyboard shortcut `Ctrl+Alt+E`, and select one or more emojis to paste them into the currently focused app.

Please note that:

⚡️ Emote shows up faster when invoked using the built-in keyboard shortcut (`Ctrl+Alt+E` by default), than when using a manually registered keyboard shortcut.

🪟 Emote under Wayland cannot automatically paste the emoji into other apps, and also requires manual registering of a global keyboard shortcut - (Hotkey In Wayland - github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/wiki/Hotkey-In-Wayland). This is due to intentional restrictions in the design of Wayland itself.

🍾 Built as a popup: quick invocation, and disappears when not needed, does not stay as a standalone window

🫠 Provide a large and up-to-date list of emojis retrieved from openmoji.org

🧠 Shows the last used emojis by default

🔎 Search text box automatically focused and ready to type when invoked

⌨️ Can use shortcuts to navigate and select emojis

✒️ Selected emoji automatically pasted to your currently focused app (on X11 only)

How to run

emote

Commands: emote

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