The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven’t found a usable alternative in Wayland.

Thought I’d check here to see if anyone has any suggestions?

  • vjurt6@lemmy.world
    15·
    16 hours ago

    Hello, I had the same need. The best alternative I found is keymapper : https://github.com/houmain/keymapper You have tons of examples on the main page. The syntax is somehow similiar compared to ahk.

    I have yet to master mouseclick (issue with ydotool on KDE/wayland maybe), but everything else is working.

    I think this is the tool you are looking for, let us know what you tried :)

    • xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      12 hours ago

      I was just today looking for an AHK alternative for a new Ubuntu Studio system I recently set up, somehow I didn’t come across this one. It’s exactly what I need, specifically the support for application-aware and input-device-aware mappings. The cross platform support using the same scripts is also intriguing. I will be trying this out soon, thanks for suggesting it!