My system: ubuntu 14.04 unity desktop 4GB RAM Whenever I try to use the "autokey" utility (https://code.google.com/p/autokey/) on a kde application, it produces bogus characters and makes the application crash. Tried it with kontact, kate, keepass2, kde control module, Kwalletmanager, the calligra suite. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type an abreviation saved in autokey within a kde application such as kontact, kate, keepass2, kde control module, Kwalletmanager, the calligra suite Actual Results: bogus characters appear, kde application hangs Expected Results: expand the abreviation to the saved string. E.g. I saved: "mfg" should produce "Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Wolf Drechsel".
Does it also happen with pure Qt applications?
No. There are minor glitches with firefox (missing characters, trigger words not completely erased), but no crash/hangs. Only kde apps are causing the severe problems ):
Firefox is no Qt application. Popular Qt applications are VLC, SMPlayer, Scribus, etc.
Sorry. Tried scribus: Within a textframe or a text editor window, the same problems occur: bogus characters, even if I after the expansion happened just type more characters. The app will not crash, but further text editing is not possible - just bogus characters. The same e.g. within a "Document settings" window. HTH, Wolf
Please report this issue directly to Qt developers via https://bugreports.qt.io/ It is possible that the Qt event processing gets confused about the way autokey sends the fake key events. The KDE Workspace also offers a way to assign keyboard macros ("khotkeys"), and I do not know of similar issues there.