Install espanso (compiled due to annoying notifications and no systemd): cd $CLONE_DIR git clone https://github.com/espanso/espanso Install wxwidgets If on Arch/Artix: doas pacman -S wxwidgets If on Gentoo: https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Installing_and_configuring_under_Gentoo https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-libs/wxGTK cd espanso To turn off notifications, simply cp from this directory the notifications.rs file to the ~/$CLONE_DIR/espanso/espanso/src/cli/worker/ui/ directory before compiling. cp notification.rs ~/$CLONE_DIR/espanso/espanso/src/cli/worker/ui/notification.rs # Deprecated: # cargo install --force cargo-make --version 0.34.0 # cargo make --profile release build-binary cargo build -p espanso --release --no-default-features --features vendored-tls,modulo doas mv target/release/espanso /usr/bin/espanso Copy xinitrc.txt which calls espanso at beginning cp ../xinitrc.txt ~/.xinitrc Copy your base.yml to your espanso/match config directory cp base.yml ~/.config/espanso/match/