Per some suggestions on here and lifehacker, I began using autokey.

It worked great for a week, but as of today it now

• hangs when I try to enter name new phrases.




• usually won't close when I push the 'x' in my window manger

and

• no longer responds to my abbreviation phrases.

I've added a few phrases and rebooted since my last successful attempt at using it.

Another user reported a similar problem for the gtk version of autokey.

The results of running it from the command line seems to show some exception errors:

Exception in thread KeypressHandler-thread:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 808, in __bootstrap_inner

    self.run()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/iomediator.py", line 202, in run

    target.handle_keypress(rawKey, modifiers, key, windowName, windowClass)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/service.py", line 179, in handle_keypress

    currentInput, windowInfo, True)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/service.py", line 304, in __checkTextMatches

    if item.check_input(buffer, windowInfo):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/model.py", line 732, in check_input

    abbr = self._should_trigger_abbreviation(buffer)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/model.py", line 131, in _should_trigger_abbreviation

    if self.__checkInput(buffer, abbr):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/model.py", line 144, in __checkInput

    stringBefore, typedAbbr, stringAfter = self._partition_input(buffer, abbr)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/model.py", line 191, in _partition_input

    stringBefore, typedAbbr, stringAfter = currentString.rpartition(abbr)

ValueError: empty separator

Full log here

Any help would be appreciated.