NAME

       ibus-emoji - Call the IBus emoji utility by IBus Emojier

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/libexec/ibus-ui-emojier [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       IBus Emojier provides a GUI to select an emoji by typing an emoji annotation or choosing a character with
       mouse  click  and  it's  designed to work as an extended IBus lookup window using Space, Enter, and Arrow
       keys.  The text entry accepts an emoji annotation or Unicode points.  If IBus  panel  is  launched,  IBus
       panel calls IBus Emojier with a shortcut key or the right click menu and output the selected emoji on the
       previous  focused  text  on  an application.  If IBus panel is not available likes GNOME desktop, You can
       still use ibus emoji command to launch IBus Emojier and it saves the selected emoji in your clipboard and
       you can paste the emoji by a paste key likes Control-v.

       Refer emoji section in ibus (1) for the command line options.

       Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki

SETTINGS

       ANNOTATION LANGUAGE
              You can choose a language of emoji annotations with ibus-setup (1).

       FONT   You can choose an emoji font with ibus-setup (1).  E.g. "Noto Color Emoji", "Android Emoji" font.

KEYBOARD OPERATIONS

       Super-Period or Super-Semicolon
              Launch IBus Emojier. The shortcut key can be customized by ibus-setup (1).

       Left, Right arrow, Control-b or Control-f
              Select the next left or right category or emoji on  the  list  if  an  annotation  is  not  typed.
              Otherwise move the cursor to the immdediate left or right in the typed annotation.

       Down, Up arrow, Control-n or Control-p
              Select the next top or down category or emoji on the list

       Enter  Commit the selected emoji.

       Escape Go back to the category list from emoji list, erase the typed annotation, and close IBus Emojier.

       Space  Select  the next left category or emoji on the list.  If Shift-Space is typed, a space chararacter
              can be inserted between words in an annotation or Unicode points. E.g. 1f466 Shift-Space 1f3fb

       PageDown, PageUp, Control-Shift-n or Control-Shift-p
              Move to the next or previous page in the category or emoji list.

       Head, End, Control-h or Control-e
              Select the first or last emoji on the list if an annotation is  not  typed.   Otherwise  move  the
              cursor to the head or end in the typed annotation.

       Control-u
              Erase the typed annotation.

       Control-x or Control-v or Control-c
              Cut  the  selected annotation to the clipboard with Control-x. Paste the contents of the clipboard
              into the annotation entry with Control-v.  Copy the selected  annotation  to  the  clipboard  with
              Control-c.

       Control-Shift-c
              Copy the selected emoji to the clipboard.

BUGS

       If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues

1.5.32                                            February 2022                                    IBUS EMOJI(7)