A new category this year.

--jeremy

This seems such a Windows-y concept - where do you really need this stuff, when you have

• configurable hotkeys
• cron jobs (or systemd timers), or at for users
• autostart
• shell scripts that can perform virtually any task
• various x* tools

Convince me!

I used to play with cli companion.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ds-4175594453/

^ that does not seem to have anything to do with automation, rather some sort of advanced shell history?

Domoticz

Hey, it's automation software !

For my needs Gnome-Scheduler fills the bill.

xdotool, of course.

I've done a lot more automation than usual in recent months. It's all been traditional cron + POSIX shell and/or AWK or Perl. So that's my write-in vote.

Thanks to everyone who voted for AutoKey!

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AutoKey

Yes, Linux already has great stuff. I use a lot of it, but I also use AutoKey. I don't have many functions using it, but I use the main ones many times a day.

Since AutoKey scripts are written in native Python, they can do almost anything Python can do - which is almost anything - including invoking all those other facilities you refer to - at the touch of a hotkey or when a trigger abbreviation is typed. It's a lot easier and more flexible than using things like xbind keys.

Sometimes simple is better. Here are a couple of examples that you can probably do another way, but are way easier with AutoKey.

** A bunch of banking websites try to protect me from myself and won't allow me to copy and paste my random passwords from my password manager (really hard to type correctly - especially with echo off). I wrote a one line script that types the contents of the clipboard which gets around this problem on almost all sites.

** I have a big spreadsheet that I update almost every day. In it, I have a bunch of cells that hold yesterday's values. They are copied from cells containing formulas. For this to work, I have to copy as plain text leaving the formula behind so the copy doesn't update when I enter today's values. Doing this takes a number of mouse clicks in context menus which gets old really fast. I have a script that automates this and I use it around 15 times right before I start to enter new values for today. Using it just takes pressing the assigned hotkey once for each special copy. All I have to do is get the mouse cursor on each destination cell. I don't even have to click because the script does that for me.

AutoKey also has per script/phrase window filters. The above scripts only work if the active window title or class matches a particular regex. That's harder to do without AutoKey. It's also possible to have several scripts with mutually exclusive window filters assigned to the same hotkey. That's really hard to do without AutoKey.

I have two scripts, each triggered by Ctrl+p, that automate two different print to file dialogs that are only invoked on the appropriate active windows. For all other windows, Ctrl+p is passed to the windows unmodified.

Any Linux setup I have ever used had configurable hotkeys OOTB.

Even while I was reading this I saw a oneliner hotkey solution.
Either way, you're still left with the problem of having plain text passwords in your clipboard.
I suspect the real solution here would be to use a different password manager, but that's beside the point.

TBH this sounds way convoluted and fragile to my ears, but I have one or two similar solutions working on my setup - again, with shell scripts and existing hotkey functionality.

Depends on your definition of "really hard", but I don't think that's really hard to do without AutoKey.

That is exactly the gist of my previous post. Just because it's all in Python doesn't mean it's simpler.
Also I assume Autokey needs to have some sort of daemon running for any of this to work? That's needless duplication of functionality from where I stand.

I'm not saying Autokey is bad software, and I appreciate the effort you put into developing it, but nothing you wrote convinced me.