How to remove emoji picker Ctrl+. shortcut?

[ArturDorochowicz]

I'm running bluefin-dx:stable, version 44.20260519 at the moment. I think with the recent update (2 months ago?) to Gnome 50, the emoji picker Ctrl+. shortcut was activated and I'm at a loss at how to disable it.

I'm not sure if the earlier versions didn't have it or I had been successful at disabling it somehow. My attempts in the current version have been fruitless so far.

What I did so far:

1. ran ibus-setup and removed all Emoji annotations keyboard shortcuts (that list included Ctrl+.)
2. I think there was also a ctrl+. shortcut in Gnome Settings -> Keyboard; I removed it

These didn't fix the issue, I'm still getting the picker on ctrl+.

How to disable the shortcut? I'm also fine with removing the emoji picker altogether if that'd be the only solution, but I don't know how.

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @ArturDorochowicz! I'm Dosu and I'm helping the Bluefin team.

The issue is that ibus manages its own emoji picker hotkeys via a gsettings schema that's separate from both the ibus-setup GUI and GNOME Settings, which is why your changes there didn't stick [1].

To disable the Ctrl+. emoji picker, run:

gsettings set org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey "[]"

You can verify it worked with:

gsettings get org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey

This should return @as [] (an empty array), meaning no hotkey is bound.

Note: Bluefin also ships the Smile flatpak emoji picker with its own shortcuts (Super+. and Ctrl+Alt+Space). If you want to disable those too, you can change them in the Smile app settings [2].

For more info: https://docs.projectbluefin.io

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[ArturDorochowicz]

That did not work.

1. gsettings get org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey was already @as []. It's possible I set that already in my earlier attempts.
   I ran gsettings set org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey "[]" anyway. The shortcut still works.
2. I don't think I have the Smile app installed.

   $> flatpak run it.mijorus.smile
   error: app/it.mijorus.smile/x86_64/master not installed
   

BTW, this is the emoji app that the shortcut opens and I want disabled:

[ArturDorochowicz]

Thank you. This hack works too well actually. The primary reason I want ctrl+. to not trigger the emoji picker, is that I'm used to running 1password browser extension in Firefox on that shortcut. This hack seems to disable that too. So I'm still looking for a solution.

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On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM James Reilly ***@***.***> wrote: Here's a hack that seems to work. Open Settings and navigate to Keyboard. ​Click on View and Customize Shortcuts at the bottom. ​Scroll to the bottom of the list and select Custom Shortcuts. ​Click Add Shortcut (or the + icon) and fill it out: ​Name: Block Emoji Picker ​Command: true (This is a standard shell command that literally does nothing and exits instantly) ​Shortcut: Press Ctrl + . ​Click Add.

[sebjag]

Ctrl+. invokes GtkEmojiChooser. Support was added in Firefox version 150.0

If it conflicts with your extension's shortcut and you want to disable it, you can go to about:config and set widget.gtk.native-emoji-dialog to false.

[ArturDorochowicz]

set widget.gtk.native-emoji-dialog to false.

Thank you so much. That works perfectly.

So the culprit was Firefox, not Gnome.