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

       Control-Shift-e
              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