big trouble in ubuntu 14.04

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Everything worked fine in ubuntu 12.10, trouble came in after the upgrade to 
14.04. Still here everything is fine with gedit and libreoffice, but e.g. 
firefox and Kontact (kmail) really cause trouble:

firefox:
"elpo" should expand to "name@server.de" - in fact "ename@server.de" or 
"elname@server.de" comes out.

kontact:
I attached a screenshot. What should come out was:
Mit Dank und herzlichen Grüßen,
Wolf Drechsel

Wolf Drechsel
4329678
Packstation 189
10961 Berlin

Mit Dank und freundlichen Grüßen,
Wolf Drechsel

After using AutoText kontact can no loger be used, does not accept any input 
and has to be relaunched.

Hope, things can be resolved.

Yours sincerelly,
Wolf  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by oswal...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2014 at 4:26

Attachments:

• AutoTextProblems.jpg

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Having trouble in 14.04/Trusty too with the appindicator icon of AutoKey in the 
Unity notification bar.

In Ubuntu 12.04 I had a similar problem and I could fix it by adding AutoKey to 
the whitelist by running the script from this bug report - see 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autokey/+bug/970581.

But in 14.04 there seems no way to fix it - and Canonical is 
recommending/forcing to use the new appIndiciator interface for to place icons 
in the notification bar.

Original comment by AndiDeCh...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2014 at 2:55

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Found a workaround by adding autokey to the Ubuntu startup applications:

* run Startup Application from Unity launcher
* Click on the Add button and put into the command entry field: 
/usr/bin/autokey-gtk.

Original comment by AndiDeCh...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2014 at 4:01

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):
The workaround does not work for me.

Meanwhile I found more apps with that problem:
kate, keepass2, kde control module

Triggering an abbreviation creates bogus characters and makes the app hang.

Original comment by oswal...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2015 at 11:33

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Kwalletmanager as well!
All kde-related apps are suffering from that problem!

Original comment by oswal...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2015 at 11:48

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Checked it with the calligra suite from kde. All they are suffering from the 
same problem!

Original comment by oswal...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2015 at 12:01

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The same problem with scribus!

Original comment by oswal...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2015 at 10:23

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Linux Mint 17.1 KDE edition (i.e. Kubuntu 14.04), 64-bit, 4-core Intel processor
I have tried to install this from the cdekter ppa, from the stock repositories, 
and have compiled it from source. I have used -gtk and -qt. It simply does not 
work. No abbreviations get expanded ever, not one. Autokey stops responding 
when an abbreviation is entered and has to be killed.

Original comment by winterla...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2015 at 11:41

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I cant belive that this really serious issue still persists.
Crashing so many well-known and common apps, and you cant avoid it.

Every now and when I accidentially type an abreviation into a kde app - and 
crash it. That's really, really bad and serious. €20 for a fix! 

Original comment by oswal...@gmail.com on 22 May 2015 at 8:27

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same here in ubuntu 14.04 
sometimes works good and second try is wrong.
t e 0 (without spaces)  first gives 

0227 50121 

second try  t0227 50121  

regards Anny

Original comment by anny...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2015 at 1:31

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I was having this same problem with Ubuntu 14.04 while using yakuake. Only 
several (seemingly random) characters would appear and then yakuake would hang 
after executing a text expansion (I have an expansion to 6 characters that 
worked fine).

After looking through autokey issues I found bug #278 which contains a patch 
for the issue that adds a small sleep before sending characters to 
applications. I just tested this on my system and my previous issue with 
yakuake has been resolved. Text expansions are slightly slower but come out 
correctly, and do not cause the application to hang.

I've uploaded the patch here as well, note that I am not the original author.

Original comment by pons...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2015 at 4:11

Attachments:

• autokey.patch

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For what it's worth -- I adjusted the sleep time in the patch to 0.00075 and it 
still resolved my issue with yakuake. Now the text expansion has no noticeable 
delay.

Original comment by pons...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2015 at 4:22