AHK_X11

About AutoHotKey, you can do similar stuff as long as you are using X11 as there are various utilities for it, such as xdotool[0]. There is even an AutoHotKey-for-Linux project[1] (it also needs X11 - the author did try to port it to Wayland but gave up). For Wayland there are some alternatives like ydotool[2] (actually AFAIK since ydotool uses some daemon to inject events it works with anything, not just Wayland, but on the other hand it only provides a basic tiny subset of xdotool's commands) but the core protocol isn't particularly friendly to such automation. [0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool [1] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 [2] https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

Notepad++ will work with wine, and there's https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext Google says there are options for autohotkey too, although some are works in progress: https://github.com/Paris/IronAHK / https://github.com/poa00/ahk.keysharp/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/autokey/autokey https://linux.die.net/man/7/xautomation http://sikulix.com/ https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd

> It'd be nice to have something like autohotkey for Linux I have built this already: https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 The X11 variant was fine, but Wayland support is indeed too messy, so the experimental build for that just uses uinput/evdev and ignores anything Wayland-related. I don't think there is a feasible alternative right now for tools like this, and it sucks. At this point I'm honestly mostly hoping for at-spi to rescue us. https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/issues/2

Just FYI the exact same thing is now also possible with AHK_X11 on Linux https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11

This falls right on time for my 2023 "Linux on the desktop" attempt! (now I wish https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 had a Wayland option...) I can't live without Office! My personal favorite is 2010 x64, as Word then starts faster than the current Wordpad. Office 2010 works great in Windows 11, but there've been some suspicious move making me believe old office version will be given a poison pill or something under the plausible deniability of "security risks of 13 year old software", like how Outlook 2010 can't connect to outlook.com anymore (though it works great with gmail using google's GWSO plugin) On MY computer, I run what I want. So I'll try Office 2010 in wine within Wayland.

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.

AHK_X11 is AutoHotkey for Linux and it does not yet support Wayland, but it's definitely possible https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/issues/2 (see also: ydotool)

Hi HN, this is an AutoHotkey script for Linux/Windows that works like the basics of Vimium [1], but everywhere. This means that upon pressing F, you'll see keyboard-activatable hints for all interactive elements on the current window (there's a gif in the Readme). I built this partly to showcase the recently added accessibility-related features of AHK_X11 0.4.0 [2], my AutoHotkey-for-Linux implementation. a11y on Linux is a mess [3], but IMO it mostly works, just needs a lot of tweaking [4]. Getting all relevant applications to work has been a huge patchwork effort though [5]. I hope I'm not being too impertinent reusing the name "Vimium"... but it's the best I could come up with, and this can probably never be a noteworthy competitor inside browsers anyways, as normal Vimium has the advantage of Browser APIs. [1] https://github.com/philc

I have recently learned to use it to create an AutoHotkey for Linux implementation (https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11), and it's been a delightful experience. If you like programming in Go and Ruby syntax, this will be your go to language. Other than that, it bears but few surprises, which I would consider a good thing. Its major downside is its compilation time and poor IDE support. Also, you should not be afraid to search through Crystal's GitHub issues or dig into the well designed stdlib's source for more exotic use cases. However, the latter is as easily accessible as is your own code, and the community around Crystal seems quite friendly and welcoming. Contrary to sibling comments, I find it well suited for programs outside of web development as well. And most of all, it's fast.

> I can't see any options around automating selection/clicking of dialogue box buttons? I can only give you some technical details for ahk_x11 here. It would be ControlClick I think, here [1] is the Windows docs for it. Not present on ahk_x11 right now, I plainly don't know if it is possible yet [2]. If it is, I definitely want to have it. Other than that, I can only think of clicking on fixed coordinates, such as `MouseClick, left, 200, 300`. I haven't done `CoordMode` yet which would be rather important for that, out of sheer prioritization. For a generic solution, there's also ImageSearch [3] for more recent Windows AHK versions which I'd like to have at some point too. Some OCR command would be cool as well. This will all take a while though, if nobody else joins in. Thanks for your viewpoints though, I agree with the sibling comment

Hello HN, this is the first functional reimplementation of AutoHotkey [1] for Unix-like systems, as far as I am aware. Half the commands are still missing, but everything important is done, as I have worked a lot on it over the past two months. Converting scripts into stand alone binaries is also supported. Hope this will find some adoption eventually. :-) - This implementation focuses on v1.0-like classic syntax from 2004 (!). This is a significant subset of the popular current v1.1 syntax from Windows (AHK_L). The reason this does not (yet?) target the full Windows spec is how complex it is. Notably, there's also another ongoing project which targets v2 called KeySharp [2]. If you are not aware of what AHK is, it is an easy but capable scripting language for automation and Hotkeys, and all sorts of visual things like GUIs. If you want t