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Kulfy
Asked: 2020-06-30 12:23:11 +0800 CST

How do I enable emoji button in vanilla GNOME keyboard?

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On login screen, the keyboard looks like

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But in user session, the emoji key is missing

Interestingly, emoji key is absent from Ubuntu GNOME too.

I'm using vanilla GNOME on Ubuntu 20.04.

keyboard gnome-shell 20.04

1 Answers

  1. It is hard-coded to show the emoji button only in wayland sessions. Hence the GDM Login Screen is not effected and emoji button is shown on the login screen.

    When you choose wayland session, the emoji button is shown.

    How to enable it on XORG?

    Option 1.
    Report/Request it to GNOME developers for future releases

    Option 2.
    creation of gnome-shell-extension by experts is required to remove the check whether the session is wayland? and do the same job for both the sessions.

    Ubuntu on Wayland enter image description here

    GNOME (Vanilla gnome installed and checked) enter image description here

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