Emoji input

There are various ways to input emoji (emoticons) in applications.

The two main ways are:

1. using the native GUI toolkit support
2. using ibus support

Some chat applications also provide their own UI for emoji input.

GNOME

Many Gtk 3 and 4 application support Emoji input via Ctrl+Period (Ctrl-.), which brings up an emoji chooser UI.

Also in almost any application (including browsers) you can use ibus Emoji input:

1. To activate ibus Emoji mode:
   • in Fedora 37 and later press Super+Period (Win-.)
   • in Fedora 36 and earlier press Ctrl+Period (Ctrl-.)
2. Then an "e" prompt appears, and then:
   • either enter an emoji keyword in pre-edit and next the Space key to see a list of candidates
   • or press Space without input to bring up the Emoji selector.

Note that the ibus emoji input is not available in Live images (see bug).

KDE

Qt supports Emoji input via Super+Period (Win-.).

Qt apps currently have emoji font selection issues:

• tend to prefer monochrome emoji to color (bug)
• sometimes fail to render emoji (bug)

LibreOffice

Sometimes monochrome emoji are preferred to colored emoji.

Flatpaks

Emoji input and rendering should generally work fine, with above privisos. Some older (electron) flatpaks may have ibus emoji input issues.

Rendering references

• https://github.com/fedora-i18n/emoji-testcase
• http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-sequences.html