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I. Camps
Joe
Welcome to the AutoKey community, I. Camps!
Sorry about your limited keyboard!
You should be able to use phrases to solve this without needing scripts (although scripts are fine).
I read this wrong at least twice. I think this is what you want.
If not, post again and we'll get it right.
Combining hotkeys is not entirely impossible, but is probably way more than what you need here.
You need a separate phrase for each result you need to emit. Hopefully, there aren't too many permutations.
If there are a lot, maybe some sort of fancy script would work better.
With some luck, maybe our forum and your email client will leave
the following intact. If you don't see a bunch of less than and
greater than signs below, then we'll have to use another way to
show it to you.
Hotkey->Phrase text
F11-><home>
F12-><end>
Shift+F11-><shift>+<home>
Ctrl+F11-><ctrl>+<home>
...
There are a few "tricks" to getting this to work.
You have to set the phrase option Paste using to Keyboard. Otherwise, it emits the literal string with "<home>", etc. in it.
Don't quote the phrase content. It's just <home>, not "<home>".
The hotkey recording pop-up needs a rewrite. Ignore the modifier
key buttons at the top and just type what you want the hotkey to
be. Any modifier keys you press (on your keyboard) should have
their modifier buttons highlighted so you know they were seen, but
actually selecting them on the screen doesn't do anything useful.
See https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki/Special-Keys for all the names of special keys.
This may help as well.
https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki/Key-Combinations
Be sure to browser through the rest of our wiki. There are a number of useful articles and a lot of example scripts there.
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A completely different way to address this (if you don't need F11
or some other key to in its default behavior) is to just remap
that key to emit Home and another one to emit End.
That is done using xmodmap or xkb. Those commands take a bit to
decipher, but they work well. I have a pile of links for them if
you want them.
The good thing is that they just work on everything. The bad
thing is they work on everything and don't have things like
AutoKey's window filters to make them only behave specially on the
windows where the special behavior is desired.
Joe
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I. Camps
Camps
Joe
Glad it works, but...
That should not happen.
I hadn't done it in a while, so I tried it out before replying to you last time and it worked fine.
Could you create a test phrase and send it to me?
If you call the phrase ictest, then I would need ictest.py and ictest.json. (If you are using an older version of AutoKey, the the second file would be .ictest.json.
By default, they will be in whatever folder you added the phrase
to under $HOME/.config/autokey/data.
I think you can use small attachments in our group, but if it doesn't let you, you can put the somewhere on the web such as pastebin.com and send me a link.
What version of AutoKey are you using? It should be 0.96.0. If not, I'll show you how to upgrade to it.
What distro and release are you using? (E.G. Kubuntu 22.04) What
application window is active when you trigger the phrase?
Joe
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