Emoji, and Clipboard

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Hey! I'm new here and i've been using Zorin OS 18 for maybe 3 days (including today), and i want to ask some question and maybe someone in this forum can help me

  1. Emoji
    I don't know how to bring up the emoji window. Zorin itself has a Characters app, which also contains emojis. But I'm having trouble getting the emoji pop-up to appear like in Windows. In Windows, I use the

Win + .

shortcut. Here, when I try, the letter "e" appears in the text box with a line underneath. I press Enter, Shift, Ctrl, Tab, the right, left, up, and down arrows, but nothing happens. In the Characters app, there is information about the Keyboard Shortcut

Ctrl + ?

, I've triggered it but nothing happens. The right and left Ctrl keys are also the same. When I type, I often use emojis to indicate vibes or emotions in my text, with this problem I am very annoyed.

  1. Clipboard
    I don't know if almost all Linux distros are like this, but in Windows if you press

Win + V

it will open a pop up containing the clipboard, emoji, characters, etc. In Zorin I can't find it. I asked for help from AI Gemini, and he gave me a solution CopyQ, I tried it but it didn't work. For some reason the text or image I copied didn't appear in CopyQ. This is quite annoying for me because I often forget what I want to type, and often have to see it through the clipboard history, without this feature I feel like I have to remember what I want to copy or type (I should have used the thumbs-up emoji here, but due to the previous issue, I couldn't :P)

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CopyQ doesn't support Wayland very well. When you switch to Xorg it works.
Logout and at login click on your username then a cog wheal appears at the bottom right corner. There you can switch between Xorg and Wayland.

Alternatively you can use the solution mentioned here for Linux with Wayland, but I'm not sure if everything works fine then:

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So what about emojis? I'm really curious about this issue :smiley:

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I'm not at the computer at the momen to test and look if a shortcut is set for the characters app. You could create a custom shortcut if there is no one set.

For emojis you can also use a gnome extension:

Install gnome extension manager

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

then open it and go to tab "browse". Then search the extension and install it.

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is the extension work well on both Xorg and Wayland?

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I haven't tried it yet and found no informations about the Wayland support.
If it doesn't work with Wayland you could try the app "smile", but it is a flatpak.

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I checked in Zorin 17, which I currently have open. There is no shortcut set for the characters app, and presumably not in Zorin 18 either. You can check under Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Launcher
or set your own shortcut right away.
I created the following custom shortcut:

Name: emoji picker (you can name it whatever you want)
Command: /usr/bin/gnome-characters
Shortcut: Super + . (as you want, look that it doesn't overwrite another existing shortcut)

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I tested the gnome extension "Emiji copy" and it works in Wayland. In the taskbar is an indicator to launch the program.

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If you still want to explore here is something similar to Windows, shared by a community member.

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Hello @insert_disc_2,
I created a guide about GNU/Linux to make it as useful as Windows (I wish it hadn't been bloated in recent years.)
https://sglbl.notion.site/linux
Since most of the Linux fans don't use Windows for a long time, they might be unaware useful features that Windows has such as:

  • Clipboard (with windows/super V button)
  • Emoji (accessible by super . shortcut and when you click, it copies)
  • Jumplist (When you right click on an app on taskbar and it shows the recent opened items with it, not possible for most apps)
  • Be able to create a new .txt file from context menu (Ubuntu doesn't have but Zorin has)
  • Snap Layouts (predetermined windows tiling, Ubuntu doesn't have it but Zorin has)
  • Drag and drop items from Files onto apps on dash (GNOME lacks this, there is no way to make it possible but you can use Alt Tab while dragging it with mouse)
  • Minimize a focused window by clicking the dock icon (By default GNOME doesn't have it, Zorin Appearance has the option)
  • Auto connect to bluetooth device (earphone) on startup
  • A file explorer that can view recent folders (GNU/Linux lacks it)
  • Nautilus app that can do type-ahead search instead of recursive search.
  • Basic Paint app that can crop images (by default it's not installed)
  • Doesn’t have the capslock delay problem (When you disable capslock it takes almost a second to disable it)
  • Wouldn't automatically minimize when you open an app and nonsensically says "Application is ready"
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