Linux's alternative for Windows' AutoHotKey?

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  • espanso

    Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  • AutoKey

    AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

  • Autokey is quite similar to AHK: https://github.com/autokey/autokey

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • xkeysnail

    Yet another keyboard remapping tool for X environment

  • In that fashion my response is to say look at xkeysnail - but that focuses purely on remapping keys and applying it, potentially to specific programs and not much else. https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail I also use this to power kinto.sh on linux, while autohotkey powers the Windows side of it.

  • kinto

    Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows. (by rbreaves)

  • In that fashion my response is to say look at xkeysnail - but that focuses purely on remapping keys and applying it, potentially to specific programs and not much else. https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail I also use this to power kinto.sh on linux, while autohotkey powers the Windows side of it.

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