Questions tagged [autokey]
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How to define AutoKey shortcut which sends the same keystroke to the window with certain title
How to define a global shortcut Ctrl+a 1 with AutoKey which sends the same keystroke Ctrl+a 1 to the window with title 'gnu screen' ? If there is no such titled window it should show a popup message "Couldn't find destination window".
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How to make Autokey type Unicode characters?
I have a problem with Autokey: I can't copy-paste through it a special Unicode character. Here is an example:
I am French, and in French writing, you use a space before a semi-colon. But in formal typography, you don't use a regular space before a…
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Is there an alternative to AutoKey?
This questions was already asked here 7 months, but had no correct answer. So I would like to ask again: Is there an alternative to AutoKey, which executes text expansions, when specific abbreviations are typed?
My problem is that AutoKey skips…
rapstacke
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AutoKey inserts blank lines
Situation
GNOME Shell
AutoKey / autokey-gtk
it has a predefined shortcut "adr" which should write an address after hitting space
and a shortcut "date" which should write the current date (after hitting tab)
Problem
no matter what I define, "adr"…
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Firefox 94 Broke My Hot Keys
In Kubuntu 20.04, I use autokey to create hotkeys that launch websites.
Prior to Firefox 94, these hot keys had no difficulty launching pages, but now each time I try to launch a page I get this error:
Firefox is already running, but is not…
Lonnie Best
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How to create an AutoKey script that pastes from clipboard?
Before switching to Ubuntu I used to use AutoHotkey for the sole purpose of pasting from my clipboard, the simple command was:
~f2::
clipboard = %clipboard%
send %clipboard% {enter}
or something along those lines. Does anyone have a similar script…
Steve Urkel
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How to setup AutoKey for text auto-completion
How do I setup AutoKey to get the following result?
I type a word like ubu in a text editor
A window opens with the suggestion ubuntu
I can select ubuntu through TAB-key
ubu gets replaced with ubuntu
Tom
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How to manipulate the keypress that applications recieve?
Basically what I want is to create a DIY alternative for autokey because it seems to be so buggy and I can't get it to work on my PC.
What I want to know now is how I can receive a key combination and send something else to an application for…
yukashima huksay
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How to send alt + f7 key from autokey
I want to send alt+f7 keys from autokey. Following are the code samples which I tried:
keyboard.send_keys("+")
keyboard.send_key("+")
keyboard.fake_keypress("+")
I tried with repeat=1 also. It doesn't seem to work. Can…
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Alternative to Autokey (text expander program)
for more than a year I have been looking for simple and stable text expander application on Ubuntu. There is Autokey, but it doesn't work for many people (there are a few threads here about this). For me (Ubuntu 13.10) it crashes all the time and…
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How can I simulate Alt F4 using Autokey or another method
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
I just switched over to Linux and Autokey.
In Autokey, I would like use Alt+X to send the Alt+F4 key stroke. I like to use this key stroke to automatically close or exit the most active window or program in the foreground.
I have…
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Unable to run Autokey Ubuntu 18.04
I am relatively new to Linux/Ubuntu (so please take it easy on me) and I am trying to install Autokey to use the text expansion functionality. I have tried installing it from the instructions on the Github page here -…
Ian J
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Remapping USB number keypad as text macros?
I bought a USB numberpad with the idea of programming some Autokey macros onto it.
Using xev, however, I see that the system does not recognize any difference between its keys and those on my main board.
Is there any way of assigning separate keys…
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Can't get autokey to work
After installing autokey I tried to run it by:
autokey-gtk
But I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/autokey-gtk", line 20, in
from autokey.gtkapp import Application
File…
yukashima huksay
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How to input arrow keys in autokey
I am trying to globally apply a sublime like parenthesis with phrase defined in autokey that when triggered types () and moves mouse cursor left once which is pressing left arrow key in the keyboard.
Currently I am doing...
()| -> left arrow once ->…
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