- Set the custom keyboard shortcut
sh -c 'pgrep -i keepassxc > /dev/null || keepassxc'to Alt+V - Keep KeePassXC’s default autotype prompt keybinding, which is Alt+V
One disables the other. I thought that going the grep route might make the program opener conditionally inactive, but apparently that’s not doing anything. I would really like to avoid using a separate keybinding if possible. Otherwise, I guess I’d just have to have it open on launch.
The problem is that your desktop environment’s shortcut handler interceptsAlt+V before KeePassXC ever sees it, so the internal keybinding never fires. And whenpgrep finds the process running, your command simply does nothing.
The fix is to use KeePassXC’s --auto-type CLI flag, which sends the auto-type signal to a running instance:
Command for your custom shortcut (Alt+V):
bash -c 'pgrep -x keepassxc > /dev/null && keepassxc --auto-type || keepassxc'Not sure what happens when keepass is minimized / in the system tray though
Wow, it works; you’re a genius!!! Thanks so much!!! Hmm, Lemmy doesn’t seem to have post flair, but it does allow title-editing, so I’ll just update the post title, haha.
Yeah you probably have to play around with the flags to figure out the right approach. I can not look into it right now
I don’t really understand how to figure out flags, so I just set it to start up on boot and just log in from the start and that basically fixes it.
So how did you solve it?
Huh? It’s in the comments…
Do you mean the one about hyprland? That’s the only other comment I see
Interesting… There’s a comment here by @[email protected], so perhaps your instance doesn’t federate with lemy.lol?
In their comment they suggested this command:
bash -c 'pgrep -x keepassxc > /dev/null && keepassxc --auto-type || keepassxc'
If you use Hyperland, you can simply setup the keybind in hypr.config (also makes it easier to change your default file manager, etc)
