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fsevenm
Asked: 2020-02-15 15:13:50 +0800 CST

How to activate Emoji Picker in KDE Plasma 5.18 on Kubuntu 19.10

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I am wondering about the new update on KDE Plasma 5.18.0, there are some improvements and new features as mentioned here.

There is one thing that I am interested in, named Emoji Picker. The official site of KDE said that emoji picker will be triggered and pop up by pressing Meta+. (Super+.). But I don't know, I get nothing pop up while trying that keyboard combination on an editor, a text input field or such.

Previously, I was in KDE 5.16.x as default when installing Kubuntu 19.10. Heard about that news, then I full-upgraded my system using this way,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

After that, I restarted my computer, logged in again, tried emoji picker, and nothing worked. Any help, please?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Unfortunately, the issue is just because I installed Latte dock and one if its function replace emoji picker default shortcut. So the workaround is just to go to System Settings > Shortcut > Global Shortcuts > Emoji Selector.

    Then click Emoji Selector global cell, select Default. A dialog will be prompted to confirm reassigning Emoji selector for that shortcut. Click yes to confirm.

    There it is. Now I can use Emoji Selector everywhere in the system just by clicking Meta+. (Super+.).

    In my case, Latte dock replaced the shortcut and caused the issue. Maybe in your side, it will be different app, just follow my way to solve that in case you find the same issue as me.

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  2. KDE Plasma uses ibus-ui-emojier-plasma emoji picker which uses ibus emoji tables.

    You don't have to install ibus for that, as these tables are in the ibus-data package.

    sudo apt-get install ibus-data fonts-recommended

    Note: the emoji fonts themselves are in noto-fonts-emoji (on Ubuntu) or fonts-noto-color-emoji (on Debian). These should already be included in fonts-recommended.

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  3. On Arch with KDE Plasma, I had to install the noto-fonts-emoji package because otherwise most of them would appear blank. On Ubuntu it looks like it's fonts-noto-color-emoji.

    And then using the shortcut defined in the System Settings → Shortcut → Global Shortcuts → Emoji Selector menu as mentioned should work.

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  4. You might want to have a look at this. It's a collection of patched ("nerd") fonts.

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