ulauncher-keepassxc

A Ulauncher extension to search your KeePassXC password manager database and copy passwords to the clipboard.

Features

• Quickly search through the database entries by name, and copy passwords/usernames/URLs to the clipboard
• Work with any file (.kdbx etc) that can be accessed by the KeePassXC itself via the keepassxc-cli command line tool
• Support files locked with a passphrase. The extension asks for the passphrase and stores it in memory for a configurable amount of time
• Doesn't require the KeePassXC app to be running

Requirements

• Install a recent version of KeePassXC (tested with 2.4.3, 2.5.0 and 2.6.6)
• Make sure you can execute keepassxc-cli in a terminal without errors

Installation

Open Ulauncher preferences window -> Extensions -> "Add extension" and paste the following url:

https://github.com/pbkhrv/ulauncher-keepassxc

Configuration

• Password database location: path to the password database file that you want to access through Ulauncher. This is the only preference that you need to set before you can use the extension.

• Inactivity lock timeout: forces you to re-enter the passphrase after you haven't used the extension for a while. By default it's set to 600 seconds (10 minutes). If you'd rather not re-enter it, you can set the value to 0, but that's probably not a great idea. NOTE: The cached passphrase is only stored in memory, so you'll need to re-enter it if you reboot your computer or restart Ulauncher.

Usage

Open Ulauncher and type in "kp " to start the extension. If your password database is locked with a passphrase, it'll ask you to enter it:

Once unlocked, search the database for Github logins:

Look at the Github work entry:

Troubleshooting

Why doesn't the passphrase window come to the foreground when it's asking me to unlock the database?

Please install wmctrl - it's a utility that ulauncher-keepassxc calls to "activate" the passphrase window and bring it to the top:

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo apt-get install wmctrl

Development

I use the following tools while working on this extension:

• Black code formatter
• pytest
• pylint with the flake8 plugin
• mypy static type checker

You can install them in one shot (except for Black - that's up to you) by running:

pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt

Check PEP8 compliance, perform static type analysis and run unit tests:

make test

Backup the "production" version of the extension and symlink the development version into Ulauncher's extension directory:

make symlink

Quit Ulauncher. Then run it in debug mode:

make run_ul

Run extension in the terminal, connect it to Ulauncher in debug mode:

make run

(if that doesn't work, check the connection string URL printed out by Ulauncher and modify the Makefile accordingly.)

Unlink the development version of the extension from Ulauncher and replace it with whatever was there before:

make unlink

Contributions

Issues and pull requests are welcome!

Inspiration and thanks

I loved Alfred on MacOS, and now I love Ulauncher on Linux. The Python API is a joy to work with.

Thanks to pass-ulauncher for the overall structure and for teaching me a few things about the API. I aaaalmost switched away from KeePassXC to pass: the standard unix password manager because of it.

The Noun Project for the icons - there's nothing else quite like it.

Finally, thanks to KeePassXC on Linux and KyPass on iOS.

License

MIT license. See LICENSE file for details.