Emoji picker opens but emojis cannot be picked (nothing happens upon clicking)

[MinuteNewt]

The emoji picker opens fine, but nothing happens when you click on the emoji. Some stats:

Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4, Gtk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia

[evdcush]

Same.
App cannot be used.

Clicking on emojis does nothing; no copy to clipboard.

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
• Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.1.0-1036-oem
• Shell: zsh 5.8.1
• DE: GNOME 41.7

flatpak list | grep smile
Lorenzo Paderi	it.mijorus.smile	2.9.3	stable	system

[evdcush]

Perhaps related to #76.

Here's what I tried:

Method	Result
Uninstall/Reinstall flatpak	❌
Grant more permissions in ad-hoc manner	❌
Preferences > "Paste emojis automatically" > Enabled > toggle off/on	✅

Note:

• I didn't install whatever the gnome ext is
• I did this paste support toggle at the same time as I enabled "Run in background", but I expect it is the reset/re-enable of paste option that provided the workaround

[mijorus]

Sorry I've been quite busy lately.
Starting from 2.9.3, Smile is now using wl-clipboard under Wayland to copy emojis to the clipboard. This might be causing the issues you are describing.

I'll try to reproduce this bug as soon as I can

[mijorus]

@TClockBroughtMeHere I guess you are under xorg, right?

[MinuteNewt]

@TClockBroughtMeHere I guess you are under xorg, right?

Yeah, that's right, I'm using xorg.

[mijorus]

I have released an update right now, there was a bug that was preventing the buttons from being clickable. Not sure if it is related though, please let me know if version 2.9.4 fixes the issue for you

[MinuteNewt]

I have released an update right now, there was a bug that was preventing the buttons from being clickable. Not sure if it is related though, please let me know if version 2.9.4 fixes the issue for you

Thanks. Sadly, nothing appears to have changed, emojis still don't get inserted.

[mijorus]

I have released an update right now, there was a bug that was preventing the buttons from being clickable. Not sure if it is related though, please let me know if version 2.9.4 fixes the issue for you

Thanks. Sadly, nothing appears to have changed, emojis still don't get inserted.

Ok wait... if you are talking about the fact that emojis don't get inserted when you select them, that is to be expected if you are under Wayland.

Apps cannot paste content on other apps, that's a limitation of the Wayland protocol at the moment

[MinuteNewt]

I have released an update right now, there was a bug that was preventing the buttons from being clickable. Not sure if it is related though, please let me know if version 2.9.4 fixes the issue for you

Thanks. Sadly, nothing appears to have changed, emojis still don't get inserted.

Ok wait... if you are talking about the fact that emojis don't get inserted when you select them, that is to be expected if you are under Wayland.

Apps cannot paste content on other apps, that's a limitation of the Wayland protocol at the moment

I'm using X11 (or Xorg), not Wayland. Sorry if I got the terms mixed up (tho I don't think so?). I'm still a complete Linux newb. I'm using Linux Mint 21.3. Cinnamon and Wayland isn't enabled by default in Linux Mint (and won't be for a long time if I understand correctly).

[GordonZed]

Could it be something like xclip or xsel? Actually, that doesn't really make sense, since the clipboard management part is built in...

It would be nice if there was an option to have the Emoji sent to stdout instead for cases like this. Then the output could just be piped to something like xsel to manage the clipboard part. Probably great for tiling window manager users. I'm on i3, and while it's definitely quicker than Googling "shrug emoji" and copy-pasting it, I haven't managed to get it to paste automatically either.

[joaoportela]

I have the same issue.

I'm running x11:

$ loginctl show-session $(loginctl|grep $(whoami) |awk '{print $1}') -p Type
Type=x11

Version:

$ flatpak run it.mijorus.smile --version
2.9.4

Any flag I can enable for debug logs or something?