AutoKey
AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. (by autokey)
xkeysnail
Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment (by mooz)
| AutoKey | xkeysnail | |
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| 88 | 26 | |
| 3,155 | 876 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 5.2 | 0.0 | |
| 20 days ago | 12 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AutoKey
Posts with mentions or reviews of AutoKey.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
I use AutoKey on Linux. It's less powerful than AHK but uses native Python which is nice: https://github.com/autokey/autokey
- How to create context-sensitive/window-aware custom shortcuts?
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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Linux Performance
On Linux, the more direct equivalent to AHK is the similarly named AutoKey. AHK itself is never going to be cross-platform, due to the low-level it interacts specifically with Windows, but AutoKey is the Linux equivalent, designed to interact low-level with Linux in a similar way to AHK on Windows.
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Text expansion app for Linux
https://github.com/autokey/autokey
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Ergonomic lefty for Chromebook, with a good middle-click?
You can also try remapping mouse buttons. I use autohotkey to remap the middle clock to the right click. Autohotkey is windows only, but there is autokey which might help if you are a heavy middle click user like me
- [Linux4Noobs] AutoHotKey pour Linux ?
- Is there anyway to get Alt + ` behavior like on ubuntu and macos?
- advice on keyboard remapping sofware in linux
- advice on remapping sofware in linux
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A guide to macroing on Linux
GitHub - autokey/autokey: AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
xkeysnail
Posts with mentions or reviews of xkeysnail.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
FYI: You can enable them in Gnome with Gnome-Tweaks. Apparently a very recent version of Gnome dropped this functionality for reasons that are beyond my understanding (but that's often the case when I look at the decisions that the Gnome devs make).
However, getting the Control -> Command/Super thing to work is much trickier. The best way is to use this: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
However when I tried that, I ran into all kinds of weird behaviours all over the OS. Also, it doesn't work with Wayland.
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Everything is gone. EVERYTHING
If the likes of https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/issues/43 are still a going concern then it's not quite as "everywhere" as one would like, and I presume that issue is a fundamental one (i.e. it doesn't sound like XKeySnail gets first refusal on key events).
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Emacs + a nice theme + editing features is awesome! (plus some questions about extra configuration)
And I use XKeySnail to have the basic Emacs keys everywhere. I'm sure there are others, but it does enough to keep me happy.
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Would you still recommend EXWM in 2022?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or the fork of it, I forget it's name, will allow you to do the same as exwm's simulation keys with any window manager.
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What's the alternative of Authotkey ?
Thanks for the suggestion guys. I decided to go with xkeysnail ( https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/ ). So far so good.
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komokana: Automatic application-aware keyboard layer switching
Similar options for Linux users are keyd and xkeysnail
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How can I make my keyboard layout change automatically when I focus on a application?
https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail or something similar ?
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How to Bind Super + C and Super + V to Copy and Paste in Terminal ?
Bind everything you want: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail
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What's the best way to remap mod key(e.x. ctrl)+hjkl to arrow keys
xkeysnail is not bad in the two sense, however, there are some application do can distinguish them, say, chrome and neovide
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Is there any way to set application specific keyboard shortcuts on linux?
If you're using x11, there's xkeysnail
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AutoKey and xkeysnail you can also consider the following projects:
pydirectinput - Python mouse and keyboard input automation for Windows using Direct Input.
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
pyautogui - A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
robotjs - Node.js Desktop Automation.
warpd - A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
xdotool - fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
ydotool - Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
profiler - Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis