Comment 0 for bug 1551054

I've seen certain phrases lock up autokey-gtk, and ultimately lock up your ability to type into any other application until the autokey python process is killed. Autokey should save my phrases exactly the way I type them, but behind the scenes it needs to do a better job escaping special characters or keywords, so that later, when it autokeys my phrases special words don't lock it up.

Specifically, try making a phrase for "<script>" without quotes. Doing so will cause a lock-up when you try to autokey that phrase later.

To reproduce this bug, simply do the following steps:

1) If you don't have autokey install, do this:
sudo apt-get install autokey-gtk

2) Create a new phrase, by clicking the "New" button on the top-bar-panel then click "phrase" from the sub-menu.

3) Name the phrase anything you want ("test" without quotes will be fine).

4) For the phrase, type "<script>" (without quotes) into the text-box-control.

5) After this, click the "Set" button to create a hotkey combination, so that anytime you press that combination of keys autokey will type <script>. For example, I chose ctrl-alt-q as the hot combination.

6) Click the "Save" button on the top-bar-panel of autkey.

7) Open up a text editor (like gedit), and now hit the hot-key-combination you created in step 5.

Expected result: Autokey should type "<script>" (without quotes) into gedit.

Actual result: Autokey not only locks up itself, but it also locks up your ability to type anywhere else until you actually kill the autokey python process that is running autokey.

I have a lot of html templates that I use autokey to insert into code-editors and such. Many of these templates have <script></script> tags in them. Each time I try to autokey phrases containing "<script>", Autokey locks up with the behavior I've described.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: autokey-gtk 0.90.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-8.23-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Feb 28 18:59:23 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-10 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: autokey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)