A fast emoji and Unicode symbol picker for Linux built with GTK4 and Python.

Browse, search, and copy emojis, symbols, emoticons, arrows, currency signs, mathematical symbols, Nerd Font icons, and more from a lightweight overlay window.

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• Fast emoji and Unicode symbol search

• Search by name, keywords, aliases, and Unicode values

• Full keyboard navigation

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts

• Persistent symbol history and recents

• Instant clipboard copy

• Automatic update notifications

• Nerd Font icon support with automatic detection

• Sidebar navigation for multiple built-in collections

  • Emojis
  • Emoticons
  • Arrows
  • Mathematical symbols
  • Currency symbols
  • Special symbols
  • Hieroglyphs
  • Nerd Fonts

• Category and subcategory browsing

• Collection selection from the command line

OmniGlyph stores user configuration in:

~/.config/omniglyph/config.toml

User settings and notification preferences:

~/.config/omniglyph/settings.json

yay -S omniglyph

OR

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pshycodr/omniglyph/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

omniglyph

omniglyph --emoji
omniglyph --emoticons
omniglyph --arrows
omniglyph --math
omniglyph --currency
omniglyph --special
omniglyph --hieroglyphs
omniglyph --nerd

git clone https://github.com/pshycodr/omniglyph.git
cd omniglyph

uv sync

uv run glyph/main.py

source .venv/bin/activate
./scripts/build.sh

Output:

out/omniglyph.bin

• Python 3.13+
• GTK4
• Libadwaita
• uv
• PyGObject
• Nuitka

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Built by pshycodr

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