Rofi-emoji plugin instructions don't work - need help

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Both of the methods for installing rofi-emoji on NixOS either don’t work as expected or don’t work.

The first method using home-manager causes rofi to not open as a floating window (even if you set floating window rules in hyprland):

programs.rofi = {
  enable = true;
  plugins = [pkgs.rofi-emoji];
  # ...
}

The next method using configuration.nix doesn’t work at all:

environment.systemPackages = [
    # ...
    (
        pkgs.rofi.override (old: {
            plugins = old.plugins ++ [pkgs.rofi-emoji];
        })
    )
    # ...
];

This gives the following build error:

       error: attribute 'plugins' missing

       at /nix/store/k0kzgx40pa32672wwx29yizv97yg72gg-source/nixos/configuration.nix:355:23:

          354|         rofi.override (old: {
          355|             plugins = old.plugins ++ [pkgs.rofi-emoji];
             |                       ^
          356|         })

Any suggestions? I wonder if this is a similar issue as this rofi-calc issue.

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2

Try rofi-wayland:

programs.rofi = {
enable = true;
package = pkgs.rofi-wayland;
plugins = [pkgs.rofi-emoji];

…

}

3

I added that to my home.nix config, but when I run rofi -modi emoji -show emoji I get:

(process:382152): Rofi-WARNING **: 07:53:03.232: ABI version of plugin: 'emoji.so' does not match: 00000006 expecting: 00000007

Just to confirm, I should still have the following in my configuration.nix:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  rofi-emoji
  rofi-wayland
];
4

I also tried:

 programs.rofi = {
    enable = true;
    package = pkgs.rofi-wayland.override { plugins = [ pkgs.rofi-emoji ]; };
  };

and got the same error.

5

The legacy rofi doesn’t support layer-shell (because it doesn’t support wayland).

To use rofi plugins with rofi-wayland (which isn’t abi compatible with rofi, but with rofi-git):

(rofi-emoji.override { rofi-unwrapped = rofi-wayland-unwrapped; })

Or if you don’t use legacy rofi at all, you can add an overlay:

final: prev: { rofi-unwrapped = prev.rofi-wayland-unwrapped; }

Hope it helps!

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6

Also not all rofi plugins needs an override, just for those built as a library.

7

I don’t use legacy rofi at all, but the overlay gives me infinite recursion encountered error.

8

The first method says “mode emoji was not found” in the rofi popup.

9

In case anyone stumbles on this, I followed justinlovinger’s suggestion and used
rofimoji instead. It was easier to setup and works great.

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