Cross-platform use
Espanso Match Builder
This is a web version of the match builder dialog found in EspansoEdit. The layout and functionality are equivalent but the EspansoEdit version also has syntax highlighting and 16 color themes.
Espanso Match Builder is a Progressive Web App (PWA). It can be used in any browser and will work online or offline. In Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome and Edge you can install Espanso Match Builder as an app from the app install button in the browser address bar. On other browsers that do not support installation (such as Safari) you can use the Add to Home Screen option from the browser context menu.
Wine on Linux
EspansoEdit is currently native to the Windows platform only. However, the main functions work well on Wine on Linux. EspansoEdit has a silver rating on the Wine Application Database (AppDB) at WineHQ:
Configuration notes
The following configuration notes for Wine on Linux were kindly prepared by smeech (moderator for the Espanso server on Discord):
- Download the EspansoEdit ZIP file with program and extract
EspansoEdit.exe
to a convenient location such as your Espanso base directory. - Run
EspansoEdit.exe
. This will show an error but create a file calledEspansoEdit.ini
in the same directory. - Close
EspansoEdit.exe
. - Start
winecfg
and open the Drives tab. Add a drive (e.g.,E:
) and set its Path to/home/yourname/.config/espanso/
, replacingyourname
with your Linux login-name. You will need to type or paste the line as Browse does not allow navigation to the.config
folder. - Edit
EspansoEdit.ini
by adding or amending the following lines (assumingE:
was used in the previous step):
- Restart
EspansoEdit.exe
- You can adjust the font size for the code and file lists from the
winecfg
Graphics tab by using the slider for Screen resolution. Menu fonts can be adjusted from the Desktop Integration tab using the Menu Text item.
Additional notes
-
There is a report that the Metro DW dark theme caused a crash on Wine on Linux, with error message relating to
gdiplus.dll
(library for the GDI graphics interface). This was resolved by changing the DLL override for it forEspansoEdit.exe
inwinecfg
fromNative then Builtin
toNative (Windows)
. -
EspansoEdit menu options to run Espanso commands do not work on Wine on Linux but this does not affect the functionality of the app.