So I have saved answers for those common questions. I answer support questions for Cart66, the WordPress Ecommerce Plugin and there are some common questions that tend to come up on a regular basis. There are a variety of different little things I tend to type over and over. So I put together this tiny little script to do just that. For example, I want to type sig and have it expand into my complete email signature – not matter what browser or email client I’m using. I just want a quick way to expand a text snippet into a longer chunk of text. Autokey is also a little more than I even need. deb installer for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and above) on the GitHub project page linked to below.I’ve been using Ubuntu for a long time and have been lamenting the sad state of autokey and it’s relationship with Firefox and Thunderbird. While TextSuggest is not the most straightforward tool to get up and running - I’d advise anyone uncomfortable fiddling around with hidden files to give it a miss - you will find everything you need to get started (including a. Assign Custom Keyboard Shortcuts through System Settings Once installed you’ll need to assign custom keyboard shortcuts for ‘textsuggest’ and ‘textsuggest –noselect’, which will open the relevant prompt when pressed. With those dependencies in mind it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to know that this tool only works on X11 display server, and not Wayland or Mir. The tool requires xdotool, libxdo3, and xclip to be installed, plus a forked version of dmenu (dmenu2) to show the pop-over word finding interface.
Text Suggest is free, open-source software but currently only supports English. Structure your abbreviations as follows: abrv=Abbreviation To create your own custom text-expanding abbreviations you will need to create a new plaintext document called ‘.Custom_Words.txt’ in your home folder. This latter feature is especially helpful.įor instance, you could create a text expansion rule that lets you hit Ctrl+Shortcut, type ‘esig’ and have your entire email signature line (or a common phrase, a canned reply, or anything else that takes too much effort to type manually).
Text expansion (where you can enter entire sentences by typing an abbreviation).Suggestions (where you see words based on currently highlighted text).
Word insert (where you search for a word and hit enter to insert it).The tool, which uses the English Open Word List to draw its suggestions from, has three key features: basically the suggestions on a mobile touch keyboard, but for the Linux desktop”. Raju explains more: “ a script that suggests and expands words as you type. It’s not a like-for-like replacement, but it comes close. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long… Linux Text Expander and Autocompleteīharadwaj Raju e-mailed us to share a new tool he’s been working on that brings autocomplete and text expanding features to the Linux desktop. I wondered if there was something similar for Linux.
Mac OS X (or is it macOS, now?) has just such a feature built in: you start typing a sentence and, when you want to see a list of autocomplete suggestions, you tap the ESC button. Auto-complete on mobile devices helps to save a ton of time and screen taps.īut have you ever wanted something similar on the desktop?