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Paste selected emoji using ydotool on Wayland #161

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Paste selected emoji using ydotool on Wayland
ZimbiX Aug 21, 2024
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Readme: Note pasting dependency on xdotool/ydotool
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Launch the emoji picker with the configurable keyboard shortcut `Ctrl+Alt+E`, an

- ⚡️ Emote [shows up faster](https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/issues/54) when invoked using the built-in keyboard shortcut (`Ctrl+Alt+E` by default), than when using a manually registered keyboard shortcut.
- 🪟 Emote under Wayland cannot automatically paste the emoji into other apps, and also requires manual registering of a global keyboard shortcut - [Hotkey In Wayland](https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/wiki/Hotkey-In-Wayland). This is due to intentional restrictions in the design of Wayland itself.
- Pasting on X11 requires [`xdotool`](https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool), and on Wayland requires [`ydotool`](https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool).

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<img width="500" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/master/images/screenshot.png">
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion emote/picker.py
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Expand Up @@ -648,7 +648,11 @@ def on_emoji_select(self, emoji):

self.destroy()

if not config.is_wayland:
if config.is_wayland:
# Paste using Ctrl+Shift+V so it also works in a terminal
# Sleeping in the system process and backgrounding it avoids the sleep happening synchronously before the Emote window closes
os.system("bash -c 'sleep 0.15; ydotool key 29:1 42:1 47:1 47:0 42:0 29:0' &")
else:
time.sleep(0.15)
os.system("xdotool key ctrl+v")

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