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Alfred and keepassx3/18/2023 So let’s have a look at a 14 years old free and open source alternative: KeePass. Now these services only have a small issues: You need to pay for it and they make you put all your passwords on the servers of a single company with little flexibility in case you don’t feel like trusting them anymore. This is not a new idea and there are enough companies that offer solid services to help you with this - such as 1Password or LastPass. It’s nice to have all your logins in one place and to only have to remember a single password (please make it a secure password - don’t try putting super many complicated symbols in there but make it long, make it a sentence of a few words). They help you remember and generate secure passwords for all your digital services. If you are a person that cares about being in control of their logins and keeping the logins secure, you are in need of some way of managing a big number of different and complicated passwords. I guess I don’t need to explain why it is not a good idea trusting all your logins to one single company - especially when the core business of the company is collecting as much as possible information about as many people as possible. But individuals and smaller companies are stuck with managing passwords themselves or relying on third-party authentication from Google, Facebook and so on. Bigger companies often work around this by relying on products that support Single Sign-on or similar. It’s 2018 and passwords are still a pain we haven’t figured out. Update: are newlines, can't believe it's this hard to post code snippets here.Let me show you why KeePass is more fun than your cloud-based password manager. Last line simply simulates my KeePassX Auto-Type shortcut (which I got from OS X, yes). #!/bin/bashnohup xdg-open " " >&/dev/null &wmctrl -a Operasleep 1xte 'keydown Hyper_R' 'key dollar' 'keyup Hyper_R' I was able to reproduce that with a bash script that I call from my own launcher and it works just as well, if not faster. keepassxc-cli was not on PATH and I created symlink to /usr/local/bin folder for it to be visible. JetBrains WebStorm Kaltura Capture Karabiner-Elements KeePassX KeePassXC Keeper Password Manager. replaced slashes with arrows to show folder names more clearly. AlDente Classic Alfred 3 Alfred 4 Alfred 5. I like how I could type "gmail" in Alfred and have 1Password do everything for me. removed leading slash for display clarity. Although the original KeePass has significant flaws, it has earned a good security reputation and is constantly improving with regular security patches and updates. =UserScript=// Google// google// *// none// =/UserScript=document.title += " | Google" KeePassX is one of over 30 variations of KeePass that have been based off of the original KeePass application. Install a Greasemonkey plugin to your browser and add scripts such as this one: KeePassX does use the browser title bar and it's sometimes not reliable. It'll ask for your password and disappear. Just open the settings, click the first two checkboxes ("system tray icon", "minimize to tray instead of taskbar") and add `keepassx -min` to your login script. I have a pretty simple use case with KeePassX (no sync) and here are the solutions I've found to problems mentioned in this thread. I hated AgileBits for the 4.0 bloat redesign which made everything slower (this is a constant on OS X it seems). I've switched from OS X a few months ago and I'm actually happier with KeePassX than with 1Password.
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