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Q Hotting up Debian

I’ve started using Linux through Debian and so far so good. However, something that’s pretty essential to how I use my computer is the various shortcuts AutoHotKey provided in Windows.

In AutoHotKey, I had a script that played an MP3, located in my files, every 20 minutes, which was an alarm notice for me; I had various text replacement tools that enabled me to enter long strings of text wherever I happened to be typing by just typing an arbitrary code phrase and pressing Space; and I had macros that would do things like run a Java file from the command prompt just by pressing F9.

Evie Burke

A Welcome to the world of Linux. One of the many differences between Linux and Windows is that there is usually more than one way of doing something in Linux. This includes fundamentals such as the desktop environment. You do not say which desktop you are using, but many have the ability to respond to hotkeys built in. If you go into your desktop’s main configuration window, you will almost certainly find such an option that allows you to bind actions to keys. Those actions could be as simple as inserting some text or could run a command.

If you are looking for a method independent of your desktop, there is (). Although we have given the homepage here, that is not how you install software in Linux;on Debian. does most of what you describe and the wiki linked from the homepage gives clear instructions.

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