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Disable emoji annotation (IBus Preferences)

I have recently found out that the key combination Ctrl + Shift + E in my Xfce Debian 11 does something else than I expected. I use it in Bookstack to change a selected part of text to inline code style like this. Instead of this however, it calls an Emoji annotation (which, frankly, I will never use).

1. To disable this shortcut, open ibus-setup (Applications --> Run program or type ibus-setup in Terminal).

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2. This will open IBus Preferences, go to the Emoji tab

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3. There, click on the three dots button next to Emoji annotation, select the shortcut and press Delete.

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4. The Emoji annotation should now be empty and shouldn't interfere with other application shortcuts.

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