Alt + Number won't work

[iiKovu]

As the title suggests, using "alt + a number" won't insert the emoji on the number selected, as it used to do.
I saw another issue opened, but don't think it's getting to a solution for this specifically.

I'm on Arch and X11.

[fdw]

Well, that's not enough information to determine what the problem is, much less if it's a different one than #214.

won't insert the emoji on the number selected

What does happen instead?

as it used to do.

What has changed? A new rofimoji version? Something else?

Which action do you use? Do you use rofimoji as a rofi mode or standalone?

[ascodeasice]

• 6.13.2-arch1-1
• Rofi: 1.7.8-dirty
• rofimoji 6.5.0
• libxkcommon 1.8.0-1

My issue was that, running rofimoji, and pressing alt+number would type out the number, instead of copying the corresponding emoji like it used to (I configured the action to be copy)

After some search, I think this is the issue: [BUG] libxkbcommon 1.8.0 breaks the use of keybinds with Alt · Issue #2095 · davatorium/rofi

In short, updating libxkbcommon would make rofi receive both the Alt and Meta key when alt is pressed.

A workaround is to bind 'Alt+Meta+' instead, according to this comment

I might try to write some rofi configuration or find out how to send a PR to rofimoji so it's both compatible with the older and newer version of libxkbcommon.

[ascodeasice]

Adding these to my ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi fixed this issue for me, it maps alt+meta+number to the original action of alt+number

configuration{
  kb-custom-1: "Alt+Meta+1";
  kb-custom-2: "Alt+Meta+2";
  kb-custom-3: "Alt+Meta+3";
  kb-custom-4: "Alt+Meta+4";
  kb-custom-5: "Alt+Meta+5";
  kb-custom-6: "Alt+Meta+6";
  kb-custom-7: "Alt+Meta+7";
  kb-custom-8: "Alt+Meta+8";
  kb-custom-9: "Alt+Meta+9";
  kb-custom-10: "Alt+Meta+0";
}

[fdw]

Awesome, thank you very much for the analysis!

I read the rofi issue so that there will be a fix in the next rofi version.

[iiKovu]

Issue resolved as of Rofi version 1.7.8-2.
For everyone who made changes on key binds adding the "+Meta" option, it'll throw an error now. Just remove those from every key bind and Rofi as well as Rofimoji will work as they did.

Thanks again for the research @ascodeasice.