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rbw-rofi

A rofi frontend for Bitwarden

Based on the alternative Bitwarden CLI rbw and inspired by rofi-pass, rbw-rofi is a simplistic password typer/copier using rofi, wofi, and fuzzel.

Screenshot of rofi-rbw Screenshot of a rofi-rbw entry menu

Features

  • Autotype password or username (Enter/Alt+3 and Alt+2, respectively)
  • Autotype username and password (with a tab character in between) with Alt+1 (and copy TOTP to clipboard)
  • Configure autotyping either as a keybinding or by having a _autotype field in your credential
  • Copy username, password or TOTP to the clipboard (Alt+u, Alt+p and Alt+t, respectively)
  • Show an autotype menu with all fields

Usage

First, you need to configure rbw. See its documentation for that. Then, you can start rofi-rbw. It is not available as a rofi mode.

Configuration

You can configure rofi-rbw either with cli arguments or with a config file called $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rofi-rbw.rc. In the file, use the long option names without double dashes.

Options

long option short option possible values description
--action -a type (default), copy, print Choose what rofi-rbw should do.
--target -t username, password, notes, totp (or any custom field) Choose which components of the selected entry are interesting. Can be passed multiple times to type/copy/print several components. Default is username and password.
--prompt -r any string Define the text of the prompt.
--keybindings Define custom keybindings in the format <shortcut>:<action>:<target>, for example Alt+x:copy:username. Multiple keybindings can be concatenated with ,; multiple targets for one shortcut can be concatenated with :. Note that wofi and fuzzel don't support keybindings.
--menu-keybindings Define custom keybindings for the target menu in the format <shortcut>:<action>, similar to --keybindings. Note that wofi and fuzzel don't support keybindings.
--no-cache Disable the automatic frecency cache. It contains sha1-hashes of the selected entries and how often they were used.
--clear-after integer number >= 0 (default is 0) Limit the duration in seconds passwords stay in your clipboard (unless overwritten). When set to 0, passwords will be kept indefinitely.
--typing-key-delay delay in milliseconds Set a delay between key presses when typing. 0 by default, but that may result in problems.
--no-help Don't show the help message about the available shortcuts.
--no-folder Don't show the entry's folder in the list.
--selector-args Define arguments that will be passed through to rofi, wofi, or fuzzel.
Please note that you need to specify it as --selector-args="<args>" or --selector-args " <args>" because of a bug in argparse
--selector rofi, wofi, fuzzel Show the selection dialog with this application. Chosen automatically by default.
--clipboarder xsel, xclip, wl-copy Access the clipboard with this application. Chosen automatically by default.
--typer xdotool, wtype, ydotool, dotool Type the characters using this application. Chosen automatically by default.
--use-notify-send Send desktop notification after copying TOTP.

Autotyping

By default, Alt+1 will type username and password, separated with a tab character. However, you can change this behavior by defining your own keybinding (if your selector supports this). For example, Alt+1:type:username:enter:delay:password:enter will type the username, enter, wait for a second and then type the password and enter again.

This sequence can also be defined as a field _autotype on each credential.

Installation

From distribution repositories

Packaging status

From PyPI

rofi-rbw is on PyPI. You can install it with pip install --user rofi-rbw (or sudo pip install rofi-rbw).

Manually

Download the wheel file from releases and install it with sudo pip install $filename (or you can use pip install --user $filename to only install it for the local user). Note that it needs configargparse to work.

Dependencies

You also need:

  • Python 3.7 or higher
  • rofi, wofi, or fuzzel
  • Something to programmatically type characters into other applications. Depending on your display server, it's xdotool, wtype, ydotool or dotool.
  • Something to copy text to the clipboard. Again, depending on the display server, you want xclip, xsel or wl-copy.
  • Optionally libnotify to provide notify-send needed for --use-notify-send