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In the past few Ubuntu releases (and if my memory serves me right also in 20.04 at the beginning), I was able to insert emoji in every application by clicking ctrl + shift + e and then typing out the name. This is a very convenient feature that suddenly stopped working.

I have already verified that ibus-daemon is running and that the keyboard shortcut did not change via ibus-setup (I have also tried changing it to something other, but to no avail). I have also attempted the solution described in this answer here, however it only partially solved the issue (the shortcut worked in Gedit but pretty much nowhere else).

Did something change that I missed? Or did I break something on my systems (which would be weird, since it affects both of my machines running 20.04)?

Thanks for your time!

Amadeus
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Incidentally, I ran into a fix for this while debugging why my pinyin input was broken. All I had to was add the following to my ~/.profile:

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -d -x

Sources:

kiyui
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  • Thank you - this solution is similar to the one proposed in the answer I linked above, however it didn’t fully restore functionality when I tried it (only worked in Gedit and possibly other GTK apps), and doesn’t explain why it suddenly stopped working. – Amadeus Oct 14 '20 at 15:48
  • Update: nevermind, the subtle differences in your solution seem to have done the trick for me and it seems to work everywhere except in the Gnome-Shell search. I’m still curios if anyone could point out why it suddenly changed (I certainly didn’t modify my ~/.profile before). – Amadeus Oct 14 '20 at 15:57
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For a simple DConf setting solution that works at least in Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10, see this answer to a similar question.

Salim B
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