Emoji picker hotkey permanently broken by Wayland

Description of the issue:
When Brave is using default X11 display server, the emoji hotkey works and allows you to bring up the picker by pressing “Super(Win)+.” or “Super+;”. After setting Preferred Ozone Platform in brave://flags to Wayland or Auto, the emoji picker hot-key no longer works. If you switch back to Auto or X11 it will not longer work. It is permanently broken.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Go to brave://flags
  2. Set “Preferred Ozone platform” to Wayland or Auto if you are using Wayland
  3. Press Super+. or Super+; (in Fedora)

Expected result:
An underlined e will appear and you can either type name of emoji or press space to bring up picker:


Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.62.123 Chromium: 120.0.6099.144 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Also checked in Nightly

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