Enhancement/Feature Request -- A Pause button to temporarily disable Autokey.

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The ability to put Autokey on hold while you are running in debug mode: 
    autokey-gtk -l
would be nice and make debugging faster.

Pausing Autokey while you altered items in the configuration window or set up 
other windows to do your testing in would prevent you from having to either 
stop and restart Autokey or having to dig through lots of output to find the 
test results from previous test so you could compare them.

If you decide to do this please create a hotkey and a right-click checkbox on 
the icon instead of "just" a checkbox on the icon...

Thanks for all the great work you have done in the last few years on Autokey.  
The difference between the last time I tried Autokey (back when xorg server was 
giving you fits) and now is just amazing...

Keith

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by keithwda...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 5:05

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The way to do this I guess would be to allow temporarily turning down the log 
level. However, I think whatever terminal application you are using should 
probably have one or more features that would obviate the need for this 
enhancement. Instead of the more complex enhancement you have suggested, I will 
supress logging of keyboard events when AutoKey is in the suspended mode 
(keyboard monitoring turned off).

Original comment by cdekter on 18 Nov 2010 at 5:17

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Thanks for responding.

Re:  Putting AutoKey in the suspended mode (keyboard monitoring turned off).

I assume this is enabled by unchecking the  "Enable Expansions" check
box?  If so then yes, suppressing s logging of keyboard events when
this is is unchecked would do exactly what I wanted.

Re:  However, I think whatever terminal application you are using
should probably have one or more features that would obviate the need
for this enhancement.

I assume this enhancement would be the ability to suspend "Standard
Output" from a script or application without killing and restarting
the process?  I say this because I am assuming the AutoKey logging
appears on the console screen through standard output.

I use KDE's  konsole terminal with bash 4.  I haven't used bash 4 much
yet so I don't know if there is a way to do this with it, but I do not
know of any way to toggle an apps standard output on and off using
konsole with bash 3.

If you know of a method in bash or a terminal application that lets
you do this please tell me.  There are several other situations where
the ability to "mute" the console would be very useful.

Thanks again for all the good work you have done with Autokey.

Keith

Original comment by keithwda...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2010 at 2:06

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Original comment by cdekter on 8 Jan 2011 at 3:51

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