autokey-gtk won't launch in Ubuntu 17.10

[Lonnie Lee Best]

I rank autokey-gtk as one of the most important applications I use on the Linux Desktop.

However, in Ubuntu 17.10 I cannot get the application to launch.

I installed it like this:
sudo apt install autokey-gtk

Please advise workarounds until this is fixed. This is very important to me or I must downgrade to 16.04.3.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: autokey-gtk 0.90.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 13 05:39:22 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autokey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

https://github.com/autokey-py3/autokey/issues/87

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

You may try to switch to 'Ubuntu on Xorg' session on login.
Using LTS is better than become a beta tester of 17.10.