Simple Autokey script to start a program with hotkey

[James Davis]

As my first Autokey task I am trying to assign a hotkey to start the program Anydesk.

A lot of Googling did not show me how.

Example please?

Thanks.

[Imre Neuwirth]

It would have helped to know which Linux you are using,

In my case, I am using Linux Mint 19.1 and tested this as follows. In keyboard shortcut definitions, I selected custom definitions and clicked to add a new keyboard key combination.Named it "Autokey" and in the action box I added "autokey-gtk -c" (That's the version I am using,) and assigned a key combination (Alt-u)  because it's the second letter in the name and is an unused letter in my autokey macros scheme. Be sure not to assign a keyboard macro to the combination selected.

[James Davis]

Thanks, I'm using Zorin which is  Debian-based Linux kernel and GNOME interface 

[Joe]

Welcome to the list, James.

You will need to write a script for this. You just have to know a little
Python3, which is the language AutoKey scripts are written in.

import subprocess
subprocess.run(["anydesk"])

will run anydesk when it is invoked (assuming it's in your PATH). If you
need to pass it arguments, then you add them to the list
["anydesk","arg1","arg2"]

subprocess has a lot of options. I have only used it in very simple
ways. You can learn more about it in the links below and on many other
webpages.

http://queirozf.com/entries/python-3-subprocess-examples

https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html

Start with this and come back if you have more questions.

Joe

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[James Davis]

Thanks Joe,

I put:

import subprocess 
subprocess.run(["anydesk"]) 

In the Autokey and tried to run and got:

AttributeError: “module” object has no atttribute “run” 

[jack]

strange.

try:

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen(["anydesk"])



jack
the defaults won't help you

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[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den lör 18 maj 2019 kl 21:10 skrev James Davis <mysti...@gmail.com>:

Thanks, I'm using Zorin which is  Debian-based Linux kernel and GNOME interface

Just for curiosity, is there a special reason why you want to use AutoKey for this? Most desktop environments, Gnome included, let you create keyboard shortcuts for starting specific apps, even with specific parameters.Something like this:

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shortcuts-set.html

Or this:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/proc_setting-key-shortcut/

I don't use Gnome myself, so I don't know how relevant those pages are.

Doing this with AutoKey reminded me a little bit of an expression that's common in my language: ”Gå inte över ån efter vatten”, meaning something like ”don't cross the river for water”, meaning ”don't over-complicate things”, sort of.

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg

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[James Davis]

Thanks, the second one worked!  The reason I'm using autokey is that I want to use autokey for some mouse clicks after Anydesk launches so that it automatically logs on to where I wan to go.

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[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den sön 19 maj 2019 kl 15:20 skrev James Davis <mysti...@gmail.com>:

Thanks, the second one worked!  The reason I'm using autokey is that I want to use autokey for some mouse clicks after Anydesk launches so that it automatically logs on to where I wan to go.

Ok, I guess that makes sense (even though I don't even know what Anydesk is).

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg

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