This GNOME shell extension provides a searchable popup menu displaying most emojis ; Clicking on an emoji copies it to your clipboard.

• keyboard shorcut to open the extension's menu (Super+E by defaut)
• dynamic research (press enter to copy the first result to the clipboard)
• lots of parametrable things
• skin tone & gender modifiers
• middle click to set to the cliboard without closing the menu (or Ctrl+Enter)
• right click to add the emoji at the end of the current clipboard content (or Shift+Enter)

currently Unicode 10

It will be less ugly if you have the « Twitter Color Emoji » font, or the « EmojiOne Color » font installed on your system. These fonts are on github.

Arch Linux users can install ttf-emojione from AUR.

Color emojis depends on the system you're using (GNOME > 3.26 is recommended).

amivaleo (italian translation + lot of ideas)

jonnius (german translation)

picsi / frnogueira (brazilian portuguese and esperanto translations)

Can you translate the extension in (some language) ?

The extension is currently available in english, french, brazilian portuguese, italian, esperanto and german. I only know french and english, so if you need a specific language, please contribute : you just have to be inspired by the existing .po files !

If you want to help by translating the interface, it's recommended to NOT translate the search/tooltips keywords (there are too many!). However, if you really want to translate them:

• everything as to be in lower case
• try to follow the Unicode wording for your language
• special keywords (in upper case) should not be translated
• your translations for keywords should never be more than 42 characters

The better option is to install it from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1162/emoji-selector/

Arch Linux users can install gnome-shell-extension-emoji-selector-git from AUR.

Download files and put them in an "[email protected]" folder to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

You may need to restart the gnome shell environment ("logout and login again", or alt + f2 + r + enter).