A Unicode-friendly tool for faking key presses to type strings on X11.

There are loads of tools for automating keyboard events and typing, like xte, as well as many language specific libraries, such as pyautogui and java.awt.Robot, however they all have one major flaw: They completely fuck up Unicode.

Autotype requires python 3 and python xlib.

On Debian based systems, these can be installed with

apt install python3 python3-xlib

Xlib can also be installed with pip

pip3 install python3-xlib

The python module can be installed using pip3:

pip3 install autotype

There is no support for python 2.

To install the command line tool, clone the repo with

git clone https://github.com/gemdude46/autotype.git

and run install.sh (May require root. To install just for one user, ensure the python module is installed, then copy app/autotype to somewhere on your PATH.)

Autotype is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details