Quikey

Quikey 0.1.3 was released today and includes interactive editing and removal of phrases. This solves the problem with having to know the phrase name/key at time of edit or removal. It also solve a problem where typing the phrase name/key itself performs the text expansion! Here’s a brief demo showing the new feature: https://asciinema.org/a/FWxBE5bolPRW75eYsD78xvVUC In addition to the new feature above, the --help output is now more helpful. Also, you can no longer create a phrase name/key that is an empty since that led to zero usability of your keyboard. ...

Quikey 0.1.2 was released yesterday and includes the following: A feature to import from AutoKey. See qk keyimport --help for a quick reference on how to use. Autostart for the Quikey daemon so there’s no need to run qk start after a reboot or login. This should work on GNOME, Xfce, KDE, and other desktop environments following the XDG Desktop Entry standard. Added a lot of unit tests. A few more minor bug fixes.

There’s some good work being done here to add import functionality for AutoKey users. This should ease migration for someone with a large AutoKey database. Of course, AutoKey has way more functionality than Quikey so we’ll only be importing key phrases (no mouse or scripting will be migrated). Hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and active. <3

I’ll be hosting a blog here to track development of an application I develop called Quikey, a keyboard macro tool. Content on this blog will be about new and old features, design, and future plans for Quikey.