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Scripts, phrases and folders can be attached to the notification icon menu, allowing you to select them without assigning a hotkey or abbreviation.

Regular expressions can be used to filter windows by their title or class, to exclude hotkeys/abbreviations from triggering in certain applications.

Create collections of phrases/scripts in folders, and assign a hotkey or abbreviation to the folder to display a popup menu.

Similarly, phrases are stored as plain text files.

Scripts are plain Python files that can be edited in any text editor.

Built-in code editor with autocomplete and calltips.

Python scripting engine allows you to automate virtually any task that can be accomplished via the keyboard and/or mouse.

AutoKey’s GUI features a number of concepts and features inspired by the Windows program PhraseExpress.

For a Linux-based implementation of AutoHotkey, see IronAHK. This allows you to execute a script or insert text on demand in whatever program you are using.ĪutoKey features a subset of the capabilities of the popular Windows-based AutoHotkey, but is not intended as a full replacement.

It allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. If you do a lot of typing it could be useful to have a program that can easily manage your custom shortcuts, create and test them.įor all these things you can use the program autokey.ĪutoKey is a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.