Requires xclip and xdotool in addition to rofi.
Current contents of $HOME/Desktop/my-special-chars.txt (I don't use emojis much.)
And this is what it looks like:
You can type or click on an item. Pressing Enter pastes the selected unicode character or emoji into your text field in Kate, LibreOffice, and Firefox.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
options='-columns 6 -width 100 -lines 20 -location 1'
selected=$( < $HOME/Desktop/my-special-chars.txt rofi -dmenu -i -markup-rows -columns 6 -width 100 -lines 20 -location 1 -p "Select item: " )
[[ -z $selected ]] && exit
echo -ne $(echo "$selected" | awk ' { print $1 } ')\
| xclip -selection clipboard
sleep 0.1
xdotool key shift+Insert
exit 0
Code:
✔ right 237B ✘ wrong 2718 ₹ rupee 20B9 » greater 00BB « less 00AB … ellipsis 2026 ™ trademark 2122 © copyright 00A9 ® registered 00AE ° degree 00B0 • big-dot 2022 ⚙ cog wheel/gear 2699 😃 smile 1F603 😉 wink 1F609 😔 sad 1F614 ☰ hamburger 2630 — em-dash 2014 ① circle-1 2460 ② circle-2 2461 ③ circle-3 2462 ¹ super-1 00B9 ² super-2 00B2 ³ super-3 00B3 ⁴ super-4 2074 ⁵ super-5 2075 ⁶ super-6 2076 ⁷ super-7 2077 ⁸ super-8 2078 ⁹ super-9 2079 ± plus/minus 00B1 µ mu 03BC α alpha 03B1 β beta 03B2 λ lambda 03BB ¶ pilcrow 00B6 Δ delta-cap 0394 Σ sigma-cap 03A3
You can type or click on an item. Pressing Enter pastes the selected unicode character or emoji into your text field in Kate, LibreOffice, and Firefox.
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