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Is it possible to have some sort of profiles on AutoKey? #806

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Not directly, but it's pretty easy to implement "manually".

Two main ways.

If you need phrases to work, then you make AutoKey's configuration directory (or part of it) a symlink and change where it points for additional profiles. The down side of this is that you have to terminate and restart AutoKey after doing so. It might work without that, but AutoKey needs to have a reason to rescan its configuration and that usually won't happen very frequently.

If you can live with just scripts (you can always rewrite your phrases as scripts too.), then create an AutoKey global stored variable to represent the "state" of the system. Have each of your …

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