ROFIMOJI(1) Rofi Third-party Add-on Documentation ROFIMOJI(1)

rofimoji - An emoji and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes

rofimoji [-h] [--version] [--action {type,copy,clipboard,type-numerical,unicode,copy-unicode,print,menu}] [--skin-tone {neutral,light,medium-light,moderate,dark brown,black,ask}] [--files {all,FILE [FILE ...]]} [--prompt PROMPT] [--selector-args SELECTOR_ARGS] [--max-recent MAX_RECENT] [--no-frecency] [--hidden-descriptions] [--clipboarder CLIPBOARDER] [--typer TYPER] [--selector SELECTOR]

Select, insert, or copy Unicode characters like emoji using rofi.

Prints brief usage information.
show program’s version number and exit
Possible values: type, copy, clipboard, type-numerical, unicode, copy-unicode, print, menu

Choose what to do with the selected characters: Directly type them with the “Typer”, copy them to the clipboard using the “Clipboarder”, or insert them indirectly using the clipboard. To use the compose key functionality, choose “type-numerical:.”unicode” will type the unicode codepoints of the chosen characters, “copy-unicode” will copy it. “print” just outputs them on stdout. If you want to decide spontanously, use “menu”.

Read characters from this file (or these files), one entry per line. Absolute and relative paths are supported, as is globbing (--files /home/you/characters.csv ../other*.csv). A filename without extension is enough (--files musical_symbols supplemental_arrows) for included character files and all in ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/rofimoji/data. Here, too, globbing is supported and done by default. In the config file, several files need to be listed as files=[_FILE_, _FILE_].
Possible values: neutral, light, medium-light, moderate, dark brown, black, ask

Decide on a skin-tone for all supported emojis. If not set (or set to “ask”), you will be asked for each one

Show at most this number of recently used characters (cannot be larger than 10)
Don’t show frequently used characters at the start.
Only list the characters, but not their description. Note that you can still search through the descriptions. Only used for rofi.
Show characters as icons on rofi. Not used with other selectors.
Set rofimoji’s prompt
A string of arguments to give to the selector.
Possible values: rofi, wofi, fuzzel, bemenu, tofi, dmenu, wmenu, choose

Choose the selector application manually. Usually rofi, but you may want something else.

Possible values: xsel, xclip, wl-copy, pbcopy

Choose the application to access the clipboard with manually.

Possible values: xdotool, wtype, ydotool, cliclick

Choose the application to type with manually.

Define different keybindings for these actions.

(optional) Select multiple emoji with shift+enter

enter to insert the emoji directly

alt+c to copy it to the clipboard

alt+t to type it directly

alt+p to insert using the clipboard

alt+1, alt+2 to insert the most recently used character (alt+2 for the second most recently one etc.)

alt+u to insert the Unicode codepoint

alt+i to copy the Unicode codepoint to the clipboard

Please note that wofi does not support keybindings other than enter.

~/.config/rofimoji.rc
Per-user configuration file.
/etc/xdg/xdg-i3/rofimoji.rc
Global configuration file.
~/.local/share/rofimoji/recent
Stores the recently used characters
~/.local/share/rofimoji/data/filename.additional.csv
Contains additional characters or additional descriptions for the character set in filename

Args that start with “--” (eg. --version) can also be set in a config file.

Config file syntax allows: key=value, flag=true, stuff=[a,b,c] (for details, see syntax at https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji#example-config-file). If an arg is specified in more than one place, then commandline values override values from the config file.

https://github.com/fdw/rofimoji

Fabian Winter.

September 9, 2025 Version 6.7.0