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Hello, I had the same need. The best alternative I found is keymapper : https://github.com/houmain/keymapper You have tons of examples on the main page. The syntax is somehow similiar compared to ahk.
I have yet to master mouseclick (issue with ydotool on KDE/wayland maybe), but everything else is working.
I think this is the tool you are looking for, let us know what you tried :)
I was just today looking for an AHK alternative for a new Ubuntu Studio system I recently set up, somehow I didn't come across this one. It's exactly what I need, specifically the support for application-aware and input-device-aware mappings. The cross platform support using the same scripts is also intriguing. I will be trying this out soon, thanks for suggesting it!