Protip: Omarchy comes with another emoji picker that can insert emojis inline when you type them out, no clipboard/paste step needed.

[foucist]

Currently, fcitx5 is installed by default and includes the QuickPhrase addon.
The default keybinding is SUPER + Grave (i.e. SUPER + `, or more specifically the backtick / tilde key on US keyboards).

Usage

When you press the keyboard shortcut, a shockingly ugly [Quick Phrase:] tooltip will appear at the cursor. This is expected.

Start typing the name of the emoji you want. Up to five matches will appear. Press <Space> to insert the first match, or press <1–5> for a numbered match

Example

<SUPER + Grave>smile<space> will immediately insert the 😃 emoji at the cursor position.

I may be missing something Omarchy-specific, but this avoids needing to use the clipboard or memorizing per-emoji shortcuts. I hope this helps others!

Currently the walker-based emoji picker is something like: <SUPER CTRL + E>smile<ENTER><SUPER+V> or better yet <SUPER SPACE>:smile<ENTER><SUPER+V> , but if walker is configured to paste the emoji directly as abenz1267 mentions, that could be a good option too.

[abenz1267]

you can configure walker/elephant to paste the selected emoji instead of copying just fine.

[foucist]

Good to know, it appears the workaround is to have walker run another program like wtype that reads from the clipboard and stimulates the key presses to insert it.

[pomartel]

It’s gonna be the default in the next Omarchy release: #4344

[foucist]

Nice! I read somewhere that stimulating a paste might not work across all apps. But your approach of using hyprctl dispatch sendshortcut "SHIFT, Insert," seems like it should work in most cases if not all cases. If it fails to work in some case, then the user can always try falling back to the SUPER+` shortcut.

[abenz1267]

i have this script for copy&pasting into terminal or gui (copied and adjusted from another users script):

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Used by the clipboard manager to auto-paste on select instead of copy, this
# lets you hit enter on the item instead of having to paste it after selecting.
#
# Examples:
#   It is referenced in .config/elephant/clipboard.toml

set -o errexit
set -o pipefail
set -o nounset

focused_app="$(niri msg --json focused-window | jq --raw-output '.app_id')"
ctrl_shift_modifier=""

wl-copy

if [[ "$focused_app" == "footclient" ]]; then
 ctrl_shift_modifier=",shift"
fi

wlrctl keyboard type "v" modifiers "ctrl${ctrl_shift_modifier}"