this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

[/j] that is not a question. banned, blocked, ICBM en route to your position

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i was wondering if there was any program akin to autohotkey for linux, i found one that does text replacement and it's fine but i really liked the stuff you could do with autohotkey, i had an entire popup menu of little tools on windows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the name but there is one alternative that is made on Python and you can write the rules on Python.

I don't know if it works on Wayland tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

autokey-gtk probably, it's the one i already use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps xdotool (assumming X11 and not wayland, there might be a fork? idk). Random self-reference trivia fact: I never used AHK, heard many great things about it and regretted a lot being on Linux by then. This was ~11 years ago. Then, some years later, at a gig I needed to type pre-formatted emails (like every 2 weeks, answering the same) and for that I used xdotool and assigned the commands as custom shortcuts under KDE :) it was one of my proudest moments towards Open Source Software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also have that lmao, yea it's useful but it doesn't come with a ui so no custom menus. ig i should just bite the bullet and learn bash to use with yad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

assumming X11 and not wayland, there might be a fork? idk

ydotool