Keyboard and mouse interaction on Linux

Question

I use Linux because it is a superior development environment to Windows. However I recently came across a Windows library called AHK that gives me great control to interact with applications.

Is there an equivalent in the Linux world?

Answer 1

There's nothing quite as awesome as AutoHotkey for Linux unfortunately. However a program called xbindkeys will do a lot of the keyboard bindings that you can do in AutoHotkey.

Answer 2

I don't think there is an equivalent to AHK in the Linux world. You might be able to get it to run with Wine, and if you were up to the challenge you could port it since the c++ source is availiable.

Answer 3

I would certainly look at Gnome-Do on which functions much like Quicksilver on the Mac. Fantastic launcher and more for Linux.

Answer 4

Hi Richard, There are several ports of autohotkey to linux in progress.
Here is mine: AutoHotkey using winelib
source: ahkx.git
autohotkey forum
Also, you can checkout IronAhk, autokey, and xdotool

Answer 5

The thing Autohotkey does so well in Windows is work with the GUI as well as the system itself. I haven't found anything close to it in Linux. There are hotkey apps and apps that do text-replacement but nothing like Autohotkey on Windows.

I can't figure out if IronAHK is still in Alpha or it's abandoned altogether. Haven't heard much of anything lately. Autokey is just text-replacement if I recall correctly.

You can run Autohotkey in Wine but it loses the ability to manipulate the GUI in that environment and only can interact with other programs running in Wine as far as I know.