bhava

Bhava (भाव) is Sanskrit for "feeling, emotion": what an emoji is for: the feeling behind the words.

bhava is the emoji picker for Vyom: one keyboard-driven panel that opens instantly, with live data, a preview and a key for everything. It runs on any compositor with the layer-shell protocol (sway, Hyprland, river, niri, Wayfire, labwc…). In Vayu, the desktop it was built for, it replaces wofi-emoji.

#Features

• Every Unicode 16 emoji in a grid, your recent ones first.
• A tab per category, and one skin-tone setting (Ctrl+T) applied to every emoji that has tones.
• A big preview with the name, shortcode, code points and keywords.
• Enter types the emoji into the window you were in (and copies it); Ctrl+Enter only copies.
• Names and groups from Unicode's emoji-test.txt, keywords from wofi-emoji (MIT): see NOTICE and tools/build-data.py.
• Keyboard first: every action has a key, shown in the footer; the mouse works too.
• Never freezes the panel: slow commands run in the background.

#Install

#Requirements

• Vyom 0.2.5 or newer (Python 3.11+, PyGObject, GTK 4, gtk4-layer-shell, a Nerd Font)
• optional: wtype (typing the emoji)

#Install

git clone https://github.com/Theyashsawarkar/bhava ~/.local/share/vyom/plugins/bhava
vyom reload           # pick it up (or log out and in)
vyom bhava            # open it; run it again to close

Give it a key in your compositor, e.g. sway:

bindsym $mod+<key> exec vyom bhava

#Update and uninstall

git -C ~/.local/share/vyom/plugins/bhava pull && vyom reload     # update
rm -rf ~/.local/share/vyom/plugins/bhava && vyom reload          # uninstall

#Usage

Open it with vyom bhava (or your key). Type to search; the footer always shows the keys for what's selected.

Every Vyom panel also has Up/Down (or Ctrl+K/Ctrl+J) to move, Page Up/Page Down to jump and Tab to switch to the next tool.

#Troubleshooting

• Nothing opens. vyom list shows every installed tool, and why one is skipped (a missing requirement, or a Vyom that's too old).
• It opened, then something failed. Look for a Traceback in ~/.local/state/vyom/daemon.log, and open an issue with it.
• No blur or rounded corners. That's the compositor: on SwayFX, add layer_effects "vyom" { blur enable; corner_radius 20; shadows enable }.

#The Vyom family

Each tool is its own repository, so you install only the ones you want:

#Contributing

Bug reports, ideas and pull requests are welcome: see CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup and the few rules every tool follows, and CHANGELOG.md for what changed in each release. Please report security issues privately (SECURITY.md).

#License

MIT. The emoji data comes from Unicode and wofi-emoji: see NOTICE.