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Autokey on Linux?
There is no such thing, at least in the mainstream. There are surogates, more or less capable, however nothing close to AHK 1. xdotool 2. sikuli 3. AHK_X11
You that read wrong
AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
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Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#112Autohotkey is the only windows thing I miss on Linux. And it seems impossible to even discuss desktop automation with contemporary Linux DE people, they just glaze over. "Like, why would you want apps to be able to control other apps, that sounds dangerous! We definitely want to protect you from that in Wayland.... Oh, what's that? You are a large consultancy that uses time tracking apps to help with billable hours?…
I used AutoHotkey to send keystrokes as media commands to an mpv window (if one is open somewhere in the background -- so I don't have to alt-tab from games) and as those literal keystrokes to the rest of the system. On Linux, I do that with `xdotool`. But that's an X11 thing; on Wayland, yeah, there's probably no `xdotool` replacement yet. :p
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#113Autohotkey is the only windows thing I miss on Linux. And it seems impossible to even discuss desktop automation with contemporary Linux DE people, they just glaze over. "Like, why would you want apps to be able to control other apps, that sounds dangerous! We definitely want to protect you from that in Wayland.... Oh, what's that? You are a large consultancy that uses time tracking apps to help with billable hours?…
Same. I also really miss Hammerspoon and Karabiner from macOS. Just being able to remap custom keyboard shortcuts for specific applications was so nice. On Linux, most things are customizable enough that I can get by without it, but it feels like a major missing piece.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#114I always preferred AutoIt over AutoHotkey. There is something with syntax of AutoHotkey I can stand.
AutoiIt community is hostile. It is also way slower, larger, hungrier. Now it has worst syntax too.
Hostile, really?
I was around the forums a decade ago and it was a wonderful place.
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> There is no such thing on any other OS. I thought the Mac comparable was Keyboard Maestro. Are the two that different (asks someone who hasn't used Windows since the '90s)? https://www.keyboardmaestro.com
I use Karabiner Elements and Hammerspoon. Hammerspoon scripts are written in LUA, Karabiner Elements has a large repository of useful scripts. On Linux I use Wayland but there are several ways to tackle that, involving /dev/uinput. For example there's Python bindings for that and several Rust apps to achieve it. In the end I use ydotool and kbct. On Android I use MacroDroid. You can also do some neat stuff with Selen…
On mac I use goku[1] to define custom key bindings for karabiner elements. The ux feels much better than autohotkey, and I wish I had something similar on linux or windows.
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Check out https://bitbucket.org/mfeemster/keysharp/ and https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 , two attempts at reimplementing AHK on Linux. The former is v2 but not usable yet, the latter is by me, v1 "classic" and somewhat incomplete.
Many thanks. How do they compare with autokey? I haven't tried it properly, but it gets mentioned a lot. https://github.com/autokey/autokey
I haven't used AutoKey personally, but it's quite capable and generally "just" a Python library that also happens to ship with its own optional editor (https://autokey.github.io/autokey/_images/AutoKey_Scripting....).
Keysharp / AHK_X11 on the other hand ship their own runtimes that will be / are compatible with the actual programming language AutoHotkey v2 / v1 and thus cannot be used in conjunction with other languages, apart from shell invocation. For a detailed feature comparison with AutoKey you will have to research this yourself, but there's at least one feature which is exclusive to AHK_X11 right now, and that is accessibility-related commands such as ControlClick or WinGetText.
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AutoiIt community is hostile. It is also way slower, larger, hungrier. Now it has worst syntax too.
Hostile, really? I was around the forums a decade ago and it was a wonderful place.
Yeah, its not hard to find that info all around. Maybe you were lucky.
More importantly its considerably larger and slower.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#118Autohotkey is the only windows thing I miss on Linux. And it seems impossible to even discuss desktop automation with contemporary Linux DE people, they just glaze over. "Like, why would you want apps to be able to control other apps, that sounds dangerous! We definitely want to protect you from that in Wayland.... Oh, what's that? You are a large consultancy that uses time tracking apps to help with billable hours?…
I miss everything search engine too. Nothing similar exists.
Was missing total commander but now that is solved with double commander.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no such thing, at least in the mainstream. There are surogates, more or less capable, however nothing close to AHK 1. xdotool 2. sikuli 3. AHK_X11
You that read wrong https://github.com/autokey/autokey
AHK is way more mature then autokey has huge community and big amount of ready to use scripts and autoamtion libraries.
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#120I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it's a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies. For example, I've been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2] [1] https://reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/gxapao/how_to_paste_... [2] https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/
Haven't you seen this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-f-with-paste/...