OK, so I’m a heavy user of the native pipe in R which goes like this “|>”. This is particularly painful to type on French keyboard, so on Plasma X11, I had a little script using xdotools to input |> when I pressed Ctrl+$. Very comfortable!
With the switch to Plasma 6, I’m now using Wayland because one needs to live with one time, I guess. But this means I lost the ability to use xdotools to do that.
I tried wtype, which seemed easy, but it doesn’t seem to work in Plasma (and is not maintained any more?).
I tried ydotools, which is harder to set up (it requires running a deamon as root, which is not convenient and also defeats the security purpose of Wayland I guess? Maybe not, I’m no expert). The problem with ydotools is that it doesn’t seem to be aware of the keyboard layout, and since my keyboard is French AZERTY, it outputs gibberish instead of, well, |>.
So, here’s my question for you guys: do you know of any other (if possible, easy as wtype is/was) way to setup a string input associated to a shortcut?
It’s more about replacing typed text than using shortcuts, but there’s espanso.
Seems interesting. I’m happy if it works with just as a text replacement. Seems a bit of a pain to install though! 😅
I’ll have a look in more details tomorrow! Cheers!
I second this. I’ve been using it for months, compilation may seem complicated, but you just prepare your environment once and you aren’t bothered again. You can ask for support if you find problems, and you can easily modify and backup your configuration for future uses or just in case :)