Weird glitch when pasting from Autokey into Thunderbird email

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Hi All,

Have been a longtime user of Shortkeys in Windows, but have recently left the whole Win 11 boondoggle behind. Linux has been a breath of fresh air so far. But I'm having a strange issue with Autokeys, and wondering if anyone else has been seeing this?

I'm using Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, and Autokeys works well for pasting into other text boxes, but with T'bird it'll miss letters, spaces, sometimes entire words. With longer pastes (I use some daily that are several paragraphs long), I've started pasting into the text editor first, then C/P from there into T'bird. And strangely, that works perfectly, with no typos!

I reply to the same email questions all day long, so utilities like Shortkeys and Autokey are amazing time savers for me.
I have to believe I'm not the only one to see this glitch.

Not a life or death matter, for sure, but it'd be nice to have this just work without having to proofread everything twice.

Thanks for any advice anyone can give! And btw, many thanks to all the contributors here. This forum is a terrific resource for this 73 yo Linux newbie.

God bless you all. - Dave
 


G'day Dave, Welcome to Linux.org

Where did the download for Autokeys come from ?

Is your install of LM 22.3 running on X11 or Wayland ?

Is there any error message when this glitch happens.....either from Thunderbird or autokeys ?

There are a few sources for help on this page

I note that a search identifies your problem as being 'common', and widely known.

There are several alternatives on this page (not sure just how suitable they are)

'Actiona' among others
(look for compatible with linux)

Edit to Add: In the Linux Software Manager, there are two listings for Autokey

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Try them both.
 
There are many clipboard managers for Linux. The one in KDE Plasma is very good. I've never heard of Autokey, and I can't say what it does, but most clipboard managers will save anything copied, and can be configured to keep any desired number of entries.
 
this existed for a while as well and is windows only.

AutoHotkey

Free keyboard macro program. Supports hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, and joystick. Can expand abbreviations as you type them (AutoText).
www.autohotkey.com www.autohotkey.com

i have "autokey" in one of my linux os installations. it's almost entirely run by python. and it's a totally different creature. somewhat not as refined as autohotkey.
 
Which one? QT or GTK? I did a quick investigation, and autokey-qt requires more than 50 additional packages, and autokey-gtk requires 60. It's not worth it to me to install that much cruft. YMMV.
 
DavesRepaircom said:
Thanks for your reply! That command returns "x11"
Click to expand...

Thanks. I was curious if it was some Wayland issue with communication between windows. Your results eliminate that option.
 
What’s confusing to me is, it’ll paste correctly into other apps. Only drops characters when pasting into T’Bird. Weird.
I’ve been first pasting from it into the text editor, then to T’Bird, which works perfectly but does add another step, of course. I can live with that for now; just an annoyance.
Thanks again.
 
And also for AutoHotKey ...

Sueno1123

Thread 'Alternative to AutoHotKey on Linux?'

I use AHK religiously on my Windows 10 system, I've automated nigh near everything, and I have keyboard shortcuts for everything (even including copypasta lol). Is there a tool in linux that would allow me to do the same?
 
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