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  • Does anyone know where I can get the Emoji Selector?

I'm talking about this thing:

I 've been trying to find it, to add it to the menu in Solus 4.5 Xfce, but it seems to be unavailable anywhere. I can't find it in the repos, using any search I can think of. Yet, I use it on most of my other computers. I even use it on this one (my laptop) but can't find it anywhere here (except in the menu and on the dock).

That is plasma-emojier and its part of the plasma-desktop package. I would not recommend using it outside of Plasma due to this.

    Harvey That is plasma-emojier and its part of the plasma-desktop package.

    Ahh ... that explains why I have it on most of my machines. They're nearly all Plasma, except for some VMs. Do you know whether there's anything in the GNOME universe like it?

        WetGeek
        Unfortunately I am unaware of any other emoji selectors.

          There is gnome-characters in repo. It integrates with search, if you enable it in settings on GNOME.

            alfisya There is gnome-characters in repo.

            Yes! It seems not as polished as the KDE Emojie Selector, which is to be expected, but it certainly beats what flarum offers. Sadly, it doesn't have a Keep in Dock option in a context menu, for example, so there's no way to keep it there, but I can safely use it in GNOME-based DEs like the 4.5 Xfce that I'm using at the moment.

            I would have preferred to keep it in the dock, but it can be added the desktop, or to the panel, or to Favorites in the menu, which is what I did (for now). So it's two mouse clicks away whenever I want it. And definitely a better option than Flarum provides. 🤗

              I know there is a way to get a floating emoji selector widget on gtk applications, because I keep opening it by mistake in gedit.

              I think the shortcut for it is Ctrl+.
              This, however, does not work in a browser.

              I believe Ctrl+Shift+e is supposed to be a shortcut for choosing an emoji native in ibus, but I never managed to make it work...