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do you miss anything from windows? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (13 children)

WinKey+period to enter emoji and other Unicode characters. I've got some workarounds, but they are all just slightly kludgy, especially with the Wayland clipboard.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    What desktop environment are you using? That shortcut is already available in KDE Plasma 5/6.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    While true, I found myself mildly irked by the KDE emoji picker at times. On Windows, you focus an input, press Super+., and then can click any character and it immediately inputs so I can type out 🫵🍽️🤔 easily. On KDE it only copies the character, so the flow is (if I remember right) Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste, Super+., click a character, focus the input, paste....

    I've found most Linux clipboard managers share the same issue of having to leave the text flow to copy an input and paste it again. Basically they are treated as separate apps rather than popups.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm on PopOS Cosmic, I should make a feature request, but I've been busy.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have bindings on super + period and super + comma for an emoji flatpak. Usually at least one of them works. This is the flatpak I use. I still have to press ctrl + v afterwards, so the experience isn't perfect.

    spoiler

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    if you're using fcitx to manage input methods, you can enable the unicode module, which lets you bind a shortcut to input unicode characters using a search box. it's quite handy, though most people don't use fcitx as it's not needed for simple appending input methods, like the US QWERTY keyboard

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Like... Fredesktop clipboards or is there some Wayland feature causing trouble. B/c my understanding was wms define clipboard functionality generally using freedesktop spec as the base so curious how Wayland is causing trouble.

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