Debian. Trying to find ways to replace my AutoHotKey tools I used to use on Windows...
by _galen from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KQKH)
I first started using Linux through Debian yesterday, and so far so good. However, something that's pretty essential to how I use my computer is the various shortcuts AutoHotKey provided in Windows.
In AutoHotKey, I had a script that would play a short MP3 file, located in my files, every 20 minutes, which was an alarm-notice for me; I had various text-replacement tools, that enabled me to enter long strings of text wherever I happened to be typing by just typing an arbitrary code-phrase and pressing Space; and I had macros that would do things like run a Java-file from the Command Prompt just by pressing F9.
I've seen that there are programmes available called "sxhdk" and "xdotool". But trying to find tutorials for these is proving to be very difficult. The YouTube guides are bad, honestly, intentionally or unintentionally assuming a lot of prior experience and knowledge from the viewer, rushing through things, and just generally made by people who have little to know teaching-sense nor inclination for it. I've had little better luck trying to find manuals for these programmes on the internet otherwise.
I'm aware of how tempting it is for people with knowledge of IT to just hurl esoteric terms at learners in order to baffle them rather than to help them and to implicitly tell them to "figure it out yourself, or go and submit to Microsoft or Apple. I'm not telling you anything!"--it's the whole 'knowledge is power' complex that's existed since the dawn of time and isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I hope there are sympathetic people here regardless.
In AutoHotKey, I had a script that would play a short MP3 file, located in my files, every 20 minutes, which was an alarm-notice for me; I had various text-replacement tools, that enabled me to enter long strings of text wherever I happened to be typing by just typing an arbitrary code-phrase and pressing Space; and I had macros that would do things like run a Java-file from the Command Prompt just by pressing F9.
I've seen that there are programmes available called "sxhdk" and "xdotool". But trying to find tutorials for these is proving to be very difficult. The YouTube guides are bad, honestly, intentionally or unintentionally assuming a lot of prior experience and knowledge from the viewer, rushing through things, and just generally made by people who have little to know teaching-sense nor inclination for it. I've had little better luck trying to find manuals for these programmes on the internet otherwise.
I'm aware of how tempting it is for people with knowledge of IT to just hurl esoteric terms at learners in order to baffle them rather than to help them and to implicitly tell them to "figure it out yourself, or go and submit to Microsoft or Apple. I'm not telling you anything!"--it's the whole 'knowledge is power' complex that's existed since the dawn of time and isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I hope there are sympathetic people here regardless.