A homemade emoji picker

emoji.bash

# Dependencies: `uni`, `wl-copy`, `kitty`, `wtype`, `fzf`
# `uni` project: https://github.com/source-foundry/uni

# Usage: `chmod a+x emoji.bash`, then run the script whenever you to pick emojis

export EMOJI_CHAR_PATH="/tmp/unicode_result-$USER.txt"
touch "$EMOJI_CHAR_PATH"

function _unicode_search {
	local type=$1
	local char
	local args

	args=(
		-format '%(emoji l:auto) %(name)'
		-compact
		emoji all
	)

	char=$(uni "${args[@]}" | fzf | cut -d' ' -f1)
	echo -n "$char" >"$EMOJI_CHAR_PATH"
	echo -n "$char"
}

function unicode_search {
	local type=$1
	local char && char=$(_unicode_search "$type")
	echo "$char" | wl-copy --trim-newline
	echo "Copied $char to clipboard"
}

function emoji_picker {
	kitty \
		--title "Emoji Picker" \
		-o "remember_window_size=no" \
		-o "initial_window_width=45c" \
		-o "initial_window_height=15c" \
		-o "font_size=20" \
		bash -c \
		"./emoji.bash _unicode_search"

	wtype "$(cat "$EMOJI_CHAR_PATH")"
}

subcommand=${1:-emoji_picker}
"$subcommand"

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Here provided uni package url is wrong.
My fork allows use on both Wayland or X11.