Ubuntu – n alternative to AutoKey

13.1014.04autokeythunderbird

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.

Best Answer

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.

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