- 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 intercepts Alt+V before KeePassXC ever sees it, so the internal keybinding never fires. And when pgrep 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 how keepass behaves though. Maybe you don’t need the condition at all and can just run
keepassxc --auto-typefrom the shortcut and if there is no running instance it will start it.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.
@HelloRoot@lemy.lol, it is actually failing after all. It only pulls up the auto-type window the first time. Then it only summons the main window from thereafter until it closes…
Yeah you probably have to play around with the flags to debug it. I can not look into it right now
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