In 2008, Chris Dekter wrote the original version of AutoKey in Python 2 for the Linux operating system. It also provides simple dialog management tools so scripts can present information and interact with the user. Since AutoKey scripts are written in full Python, they can also interact with the whole system to perform tasks which would be difficult for a user to do manually such as reading and writing files, retrieving system status information, or performing calculations and making decisions.

This allows AutoKey scripts to cause these applications to perform almost any sequence of actions a user could manually make them do - at the press of a single hotkey. Most applications will respond to these events as if the user were actually typing on the keyboard and using the mouse. Hotkeys, and trigger phrases may also be configured to run scripts which use the full power of Python 3 to perform actions which can generate window, keyboard, and mouse events using the provided AutoKey API. AutoKey is a free, open-source scripting application for Linux.ĪutoKey allows the user to define hotkeys and trigger phrases which expand to predefined text, automating frequent or repetitive tasks such as correcting typographical errors or common spelling mistakes and inserting boiler plate sections of text.

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