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rofimoji
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fdw / rofimoji

rofimoji

Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi, wofi and similar selectors on X11 and Wayland

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6Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi, wofi and similar selectors on X11 and Wayland

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What people are saying

Some years back I wrote myself a small SublimeText extension to to pick & insert my favorite math characters but nowadays I prefer using rofimoji[0] because it is…

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-03-11 17:59:44 UTC to 2025-05-27 00:48:11 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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What Hacker News says

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I missed an emoji picker for Linux. I couldn't find anything that was not integrated into Gnome/KDE or maintained. So I set out to write one myself, just a simple Python script with rofi. I uploaded it to Github, because maybe someone else also wanted that. That was several years ago, and now [rofimoji] can do all UTF-8 characters (and custom ones), works on Wayland and is packaged for some distros. I'm so happy how my tiny project turned out and how many people helped with PRs and issues. [rofimoji]: https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji Professionally, I (and the whole team) lost track of our deployed artifacts, as we're not on a release schedule but also not really on continuous deployment. Mainly, we released when someone noticed that a release has been running stably on staging for a while. We also needed a way to ensure our configurations
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were correct and to track API versions. So I started hacking together a small React app (new for me at the time) to collect and display all that information. It had a good welcome in our team, and so a colleague and I improved it a lot, added an actual backend and, for example, integrated it into our CI so that you can now see which commits happened since the last deployment and deploy through it, with just two clicks. We also automated a lot of our previously manual checks for larger deployments. It's become the main tool for that stuff, even for our not-so-technical PO.
In Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I wrote myself a small plugin for Sublime Text that allows me to enter common math symbols as unicode characters by virtue of a selection popup. So, for instance, I hit Ctrl+m, type "subs" (for subset – it does fuzzy matching), hit enter et voilà, I get "⊂". Finally, math in LaTeX is no longer a pain to read! While it works very nicely, it's of course unavailable outside Sublime, so I've been looking for alternatives and came across the following projects: https://github.com/ibus/ibus (example: https://github.com/sphaerophoria/ibus-memebox) https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji/ Hopefully at some point I'll find the time to adapt them to my purposes.
In A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)

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