Isn't Autohotkey just echoing a text or running a script for an associated key combination? KDE has that built in (I think they call it khotkeys?). I'd be surprised if other DEs don't have similar?
IIRC Autohotkey makes an application from your hotkey choice that you then run (eg via autostart or using an icon) to instate the hotkey afresh every reboot.
To this end it seemed inferior to the KDE equivalent for me, but that could just be familiarity bias.
> Isn't Autohotkey just echoing a text or running a script for an associated key combination?
Not just that, no. Its programming language is godawful, but the tight integration with the Windows API makes it powerful in a way that shell scripts and the like cannot easily match.
If I may plug my own free project, https://github.com/boppreh/keyboard may achieve what you want. Also note it has mouse support now; it's hidden, but exists.
