After using Ubuntu now for a while I am searching for a macro program like AutoHotkey. I found nothing on the net, so maybe you can help me out.
I used AutoHotkey for the following tasks / search for a macro program which can do the following:
- text replacement: I type br# and it gets replaced with best regards, Alex
- url opening: I mark a word and press a shortcut which opens my webbrowser with a specified URL like http://dict.leo.org?search=%s where %s is the marked word.
- hotkey for direct access to folder: I press for example <super>+1 and nautilus opens with eg. /media/backup/
- hotkey few folder: I press eg <cntrl>+<n> and a new folder is created and highlighted for renaming (or a dialog is presented where I only have to type in the name)
- paste as plain text: Strip all special markups in a text (like copied from firefox) and paste it.
- get pixel color: Press a hotkey to copy the pixel-colour under the mouse pointer to the clipboard or display it.
Do you know such a program which can perform all or a part of these actions? Let me know!
Lifehacker has a nice article: Feature: Automate Repetitive Typing with Snippits. Snippits does not support all the wanted features, but helps a lot.
I’m looking for the same program! In windows we have Quick Macros 2..
Me 2
Looking and looking.. The funny thing is that it should be possible, i mean i can use gclipper and simply pres ctrl+alt+c to get a list of strings from a clipboard.. not far away but not what im looking for
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I got Autohotkeys to work in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, but only within the ‘wine’ application. I had to install VB 6.0 sp6 in order to get that far. Hopefully I’ll learn how to make Autohotkey more universal throughout other applications too.
xmacro would be a good program to use for that
XAutomation, like xmacro, is a command line based macro playback app but to my knowledge XAutomation has no record facility. YOu can bind xte to a command key. The thing that is still missing is the text replacement ability.
I stumbled across this post through Google, and I have the same issue.
Here are 3 tools which could be of some help:
- xmacro
- xautomation
- dogtail (python-dogtail) http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/
I’m still investigating.
I am also looking for a macro program like Tasker for windows. I want to use it in Ubuntu though.
use xnee
It can be difficult to remember all the hotkeys linked to your macros. Everything is different with an overlay keyboard (like the Enterpad). Pressing the right labeled key will instantly generate the hotkey which will start the right macro.