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This questions was already asked here 7 months, but had no correct answer. So I would like to ask again: Is there an alternative to AutoKey, which executes text expansions, when specific abbreviations are typed? My problem is that AutoKey skips randomly letters when I use this function in Thunderbird, while it always works fine in a text editor. This problem occurs since Ubuntu 13.10.

muru
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rapstacke
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Snippy seems to work for me quite nicely. No GUI, but quite functional. Glad I finally found a replacement.

http://leon.vankammen.eu/tech/snippy-autocompletion-for-console-and-browser-window-manager-using-bash.html

The link also mentions another choice in the comments.

Snippy itself is available via a tinyurl and installation is as follows:

curl -L "http://tinyurl.com/o9d6ch5" > snippy.sh 
chmod 755 snippy.sh
./snippy.sh

Alternatively, there appears to be an enhanced version located here in github

Installation works the same.

opennomad
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    Although your answer is 100% correct, it might also become 100% useless if that link is moved, changed, merged into another one or the main site just disappears... :-( Therefore, please [edit] your answer, and copy the relevant steps from the link into your answer, thereby guaranteeing your answer for 100% of the lifetime of this site! ;-) You can always leave the link in at the bottom of your answer as a source for your material... – Fabby Jun 12 '15 at 20:26
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Snippy actually proved to be a very good idea, now I have a menu of scripts on the desktop.

A restructuring proved necessary, though, as xdotool doesn't work so well these days with window names ( and I tried every possible solution -my OS is Ubuntu 22.04 w/XFCE ).

I kept only dmenu:

#!/bin/bash
# snippy re-engineered


DIR=${HOME}/.snippy
APPS="dmenu"
DMENU_ARGS="-b"
TERMINAL=tilix # change to your favorite


init(){
for APP in $APPS; do
which $APP >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
read -p "install the following required utils? : $APPS (y/n)" reply
if [ "$reply" == "y" ]; then
sudo apt install --assume-yes ${APPS};
fi
}
done
if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]; then
echo -e "created $DIR\n";
mkdir "$DIR";
printf 'hi it is $(date)' > "$DIR""/test";
fi
return 0
}


run(){


Use the filenames in the snippy directory as menu entries.


cd ${DIR}


Get the menu selection from the user.


FILE=find -L .  -type f | grep -v '^\.$' | sed 's!\.\/!!' | sort | /usr/bin/dmenu ${DMENU_ARGS}


open terminal and execute


if [ -z "$FILE" ]; then
exit
else
${TERMINAL} --title=$FILE --command="$SHELL $DIR/$FILE"
fi


}


init && run

This update comes after many years, but it's proved helpful.

Giorgos Saridakis
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