Re: another Autokey issue

[jos...@main.nc.us]

Good to see you again, Tony.

I replied to this on our user support forum as well. Please reply there so
everyone can benefit from the discussion.

Two things to start with.

First, to get it out of the way, please take a look at our wiki. It is
always improving and there are many useful articles and examples there.
https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki

See the community page for all the places support and discussions are
available.

The first thing to check is that you are not using Wayland (the new
default for Ubuntu 22.04 and newer). You can select Xorg when you login.

AutoKey is an X11 application and does not work very much on Wayland.
Unfortunately, it doesn't complain or crash either, so this trips up lots
of people. We may fix that someday, but probably not any time soon. It's a
major change and requires a lot of research...

If that doesn't fix it, we can start running traces, etc.

Note: You should really be using AutoKey 0.96.0. It has many bug fixes and
a few new features.It should be the default version in Ubuntu's
repositories, but I think there is a small glitch that may be blocking
that.

You can get it at https://github.com/autokey/autokey/releases/
with installation instructions at
https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki/Installing

Joe

> Hello Joe,
> don't know if you remember me but you kindly helped me out in 2017 when
autokey did not work on my then latest Ubuntu installation.
> I have another problem now and I was hoping you would know a solution or
you could let me know where to post the problem:
> autokey only works in my browsers chrome, firefox, falkon and in the
file
> manager/browser dolphin. it *doesn't* work (nothing happens) in
> libreoffice
> and any text editor and probably other applications too but in these two
I
> really need it.
> there are no window filters specified in any of the phrases so that is
not
> the cause. I was also looking for maybe some global specification of window
> filters but I couldn't find any in the autokey settings.
> I installed ubuntu 22.10 on a new thinkpad and I installed autokey 0.95.10,
> python version 3.10.7 (main, Nov 24 2022, 19:45:47) [GCC 12.2.0]. I
tried
> all autokey versions meaning autokey-common, autokey-qt, and autokey-gtk
but all have the same problem,
> hope you can find the time to reply and help out.. thanks 🙂
> Kind regards
> Tony Namdar

[Johnny Rosenberg]

I just wonder why AutoKey is so needed, in the case of LibreOffice, because LibreOffice has at least a feature similar to the phrases in AutoKey.

 

> there are no window filters specified in any of the phrases so that is
not
> the cause. I was also looking for maybe some global specification of window
> filters but I couldn't find any in the autokey settings.
> I installed ubuntu 22.10 on a new thinkpad and I installed autokey 0.95.10,
> python version 3.10.7 (main, Nov 24 2022, 19:45:47) [GCC 12.2.0]. I
tried
> all autokey versions meaning autokey-common, autokey-qt, and autokey-gtk
but all have the same problem,
> hope you can find the time to reply and help out.. thanks 🙂
> Kind regards
> Tony Namdar

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[Tony Namdar | rugpeople.com]

Hi Joe,

brilliant. I just switched to xorg following the instructions on https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-disable-wayland-on-ubuntu-22-04-desktop and now Autokey works across the board and not only on chrome and firefox. thanks again!

Regards, Tony