Wayland support?

[adyrosebrigg]

Hi! I've been looking for an emoji picker for Gnome on Debian Trixie and came across yours. I really like it, because it's the only tool I've found so far that uses the system emoji font and feels snappy/not crashy.

When I installed it, I was able to launch it fine and all the functionality seems to work except that after selecting an emoji, the UI closes and the emoji isn't inserted into a text field. Debian ships Wayland out of the box for Gnome, and on a whim I disabled it and rebooted into X11; the script now works as expected.

I'd like to get this working on Wayland, if possible, as I use its fractional display scaling feature. I'm planning (when I have some time) to take a look at what library isn't talking to the right things in Wayland, but I thought I'd leave a note here about the incompatibility for anyone wondering about the issue or wanting to help with a fix. I'd welcome any help, but I understand this is a small project that hasn't been touched in a bit, so please don't feel obligated.

Thanks!

[AXeL-dev]

Hey @adyrosebrigg,

Thank you for submitting the issue, currently the project is "kinda" abandoned, i personally don't use it anymore and i'm not really familiar with wayland so i'm not sure if i can help on this part, still the python script is really small (only 159 lines), so i highly encourage you to debug it and try to figure out where the script fails on wayland, once the bug spotted you can simply ask for help on stackoverflow or any ubuntu/wayland forum and i'm pretty sure that you'll find someone to help there.

Please feel free to open a pull request and submit your changes. Good luck!