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> I have a designated key on my keyboard to invoke Shortcat. This let’s me “click” on anything on the screen (or in any menus, visible or not).

Oh, that's sweet. Anyone know of a version that would work in a Linux-based system?

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Shortcat uses accessibility to provide this feature. Unfortunately the current state of Linux accessibility support is insufficient for this type of thing, from what I understand.

I was afraid that might be the answer. Or something like "Well foo can do it for most QT apps but nothing else, bar can do it for GTK2 but was never adapted to GTK3..."; such is the mixed blessing of diverse ecosystems:\

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