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As someone with quite a few AHK hotstrings, and who does almost all of their day-to-day in Windows, what's the selling point for this software vs AHK? Looks like a great and useful piece of software, but is there a reason to prefer this in cases where AHK is viable?
[1]: https://espanso.org/docs/forms/ [2]: https://espanso.org/docs/matches/#shell-extension
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It doesn't detect backspace with non-backspace keys under Linux. I'm using the Colemak keyboard layout, and Caps Lock is mapped to Backspace.
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Thanks for the replies! One more question if you're up for it: does Espanso suffer from having secure input disabled? I frequently see this with both aText and Alfred: "Secure input is enabled (by loginwindow)" (aText) & "loginwindow seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry" (Alfred)... with no indication as to how to rectify the situation.
Ah nevermind, I see this when I run `espanso start`: "WARNING: An application is currently using SecureInput and might prevent espanso from working correctly." For anyone else who ends up here with the same problem: this blog post was helpful as it suggested that locking & unlocking my system might remove the lock on secureinput created by loginwindow: https://rakhesh.com/mac/macos-find-app-using-secure-input/
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Espanso currently supports X11-based linux systems through the X Record Extension [1] and libxdo [2] That said, I'm currently working on another engine based on evdev that could be able to support also Wayland systems. For the linux install see also: https://espanso.org/install/linux/ [1]: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libXtst/recordlib.htm... [2]: https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
Awesome, would love to give it a try as a Wayland user.
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Fun fact, Wayland support is the most requested feature [1] and I think it's possible, although we will need to go deeper in the stack and exploit EVDEV [1]: https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso/issues/287
A nice technical writeup! The daemon approach sounds particularly promising. Have you also thought about a Wayland protocol extension? espanso is not the only program that will want total keyboard access, and it's one of the last big obstacles for a lot of X11 users.
> Have you also thought about a Wayland protocol extension?
I honestly didn't think about that! That might be an option, perhaps when espanso becomes more well-known in the community. Before that, it's unlikely that any change I suggest will make its way into the specification :)
Basically, I brought some Windows keyboard shortcuts to linux. Specifically, Alt + 0,N,N,N to type accented characters. For example, è is Alt + 0,2,3,2.
Autokey was too slow, I ended up using a hacky OS keyboard shortcut + bash script approach. Ugly but it works! I should see if I can use espanso for this.
https://github.com/jeremy21212121/linux_accent_hotkeys
https://jeremypoole.ca/posts/windows_keyboard_shortcuts_on_l...