Emote doesn't pop-up, only if you start it manually once from Rofi
Love the new emote addition, but sometimes after reboot the super+dot key doesn't bring up the emote. Only if you execute it once thru e.g. Rofi.
To remedy this i delay started the emote app in a previous distro that i was using hyprland. I'm currently running latest stable/main branch of your dotfiles on eOS, don't know what i can share to help you find out why this happens.