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Thanks @ZimbiX! No worries, I'll remove the patch for the next tagged release.

Thanks for adopting the package, @Rhinoceros! Your updates were excellent.

PR #154 (manimpango removal) has now been merged, so the patch is no longer needed here =)

Edit: Ah, well, that would be the case if there'd been a release. I forgot this isn't a '-git' package.

I've adopted and fixed up the package. I'm removed the manimpango dependency and patched various files as per a pull request upstream. I've moved the X11 dependency to optdepends, and added a patch for Wayland support. There have also been a few minor clean ups. Please let me know if I've broken anything or if there are any other issues!

In addition to all the pending issues below that have remained with no response... There is a fix available to make this work in Wayland, but upstream will not patch it for non-flatpack or snap versions. Hence, the fix should be applied here in this PKGBUILD.

In addition to my (ignored) comment from a month ago, this package should also not depend on xdotool. There are many users who are no longer using X11.

Due to inaction on https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/issues/95, and several people running into it (e.g. nonZero), it seems fair to address it here in the AUR package. This patch fixes the issue for me:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 5d53583..79be384 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ prepare() {
   rootdir=${rootdir//\\/\\\\}
   rootdir=${rootdir//\//\\\/}
   sed -Ei "s/([^/])(static\\/)/\\1${rootdir}\\/\\2/" "$srcdir/Emote-$pkgver"/emote/*.py
+
+  # Remove unused manimpango which causes an error: 'ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'manimpango''
+  sed -Ei 's/^import manimpango$//' "$srcdir/Emote-$pkgver"/emote/__init__.py
 }

 build() {

This package should optdepends on wl-clipboard for Wayland support as per the code here.

If you are having issues with slow load time, and emoji search hanging on a single character (when typing 'too slowly'), I resolved this problem by finding and removing orphaned, duplicate fonts in /usr/share/fonts/noto-color-emoji/. (The noto-fonts-emoji package presently installs to /usr/share/fonts/noto/. Do a system search with mlocate for NotoColorEmoji.ttf.)

@nonZero Since Python 3.12 is live in Arch's core repo, you'll have to rebuild any AUR packages depending on Python. For different strategies to do so, see https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1ceq621/python_update_to_312_a_reminder/

To specifically only rebuild this dependency of emote, you can run paru -S --asdeps --rebuild python-manimpango.

emote does not launch:

$ emote

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emote", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('Emote==0.0.0', 'gui_scripts', 'emote')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/emote", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 205, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1310, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 995, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/emote/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import manimpango
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'manimpango'