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Me trying to activate 1password with Ctrl + . (control + period; control + dot) in Firefox on Fedora Silverblue: “why do I get an underlined e?”

Turns out it’s the default Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) binding for “insert emoji”.

It’s kinda cool – a compose key (ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…) for emoji – but it conflicts with 1password.

To change or disable it, run ibus-setup in Terminal.

ctrl+shift+u was set to insert unicode characters so I changed mine to ctrl+shift+e for emoji for consistency.


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Aral Balkan
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Aral Balkan
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Sadly, the IBus ctrl + . shortcut for inserting emoji also conflicts with GNOME’s ctrl + . shortcut for *drumroll* inserting emoji. So, when GNOME is being used, the distribution should really disable or change the IBus shortcut as GNOME’s graphical emoji picker overlay is far superior to the IBus’s.

Also, I think I’m going to end up changing 1Password’s shortcut as I want to be able to use the GNOME emoji picker popover on web forms too.

#fedora #GNOME #emoji #IBus #usability

#gnome #fedora #usability #ibus #emoji
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Aral Balkan
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Scratch that, of course Firefox is not a native app so GNOME’s emoji picker popover doesn’t work in it.

*le sigh*

#FirstWorldProblems

#firstworldproblems
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forteller
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Wait, what? Gnome has an emoji picker? Is this new to 42? I haven't been able to upgrade yet, but feel like I should've heard about this…
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Lukem
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I love when apps hijack critical key combos, especially ones I need for diacritics. Alt + Shift + S is not a free estate god dammit, I need to type "Ś" from time to time :(
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Malinux
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Don't get those mixed up, or you'll end up with emoji on your passwords, though tbf that'd made for a strong password.
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johnfocker
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off topic but isn't BitWarden supposed to be a better alternative being open source and all? 🤔
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Aral Balkan
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Likely, yes. But sadly I can’t spend all my time migrating everything over all at once :) So yeah, I will get around to it one day :)
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johnfocker
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aw yeah I feel you… I'm slowly migrating all my services to FOSS alternatives myself so I know the struggle haha!
One step at a time 💪
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Evan
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so *that's* what that was. I've been baffled by that underlined e for days
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Nah :tg_rose:
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Note: ctrl+shift+e was the original keyboard shortcut. In Fedora 35 it got changed to ctrl+. for “consistency with GTK”

fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes…

Changes/IBus 1.5.25 - Fedora Project Wiki

fedoraproject.org

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Aral Balkan
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But, but, the only consistency it adds is that it consistently overrides the GTK shortcut so the graphical popover never appears :)
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Nah :tg_rose:
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Yeah, the first thing I did was to look for ways to reverse that change. I don't understand why this kind of thing is done.
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Aral Balkan
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I’ve now opened an issue for this – thank you for your help :)

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…


[BUG] Keyboard shortcut for IBus emoji picker overrides the GNOME emoji picker · Issue #261 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

Summary Pressing CTRL. (period) brings up the IBus emoji picker. It should bring up the GNOME emoji picker popover. To reproduce Open Text Editor In the document, press CTRL. (period) What should h...
GitHub
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Javielico
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Always find that one kind of annoying, I've almost rewired all of my shortcuts to use the superkey so it feels more 'mac friendly' got really used to using command that now using control feels odd!
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