rbw-rofi

A rofi (and dmenu-like) 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, fuzzel, and bemenu.

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. Please check the man page for details.

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` doesn't support keybindings.
`--menu-keybindings`			Define custom keybindings for the target menu in the format `<shortcut>:<action>`, similar to `--keybindings`. Note that `wofi` doesn'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-start-delay`		delay in milliseconds (default is `0`)	Set a delay before the typing starts.
`--typing-key-delay`		delay in milliseconds (default is `0`)	Set a delay between key presses when typing.
`--action-sequence-delay`		delay in milliseconds (default is `1000`)	Duration to wait when a `delay` step is encountered in a keybinding sequence (e.g. `Alt+c:copy:username:delay:password`), for both `type` and `copy` actions.
`--no-help`			Don't show the help message about the available shortcuts.
`--display-fields`		`name_only`, `name_with_folder`, `folder`, `user`, `uri`	Ordered list of fields to show in the overview, given as separate arguments (e.g. `--display-fields name_only user`). Defaults to `name_with_folder user`.
`--selector-args`			Define arguments that will be passed through to `rofi`, `wofi`, `fuzzel` or `bemenu`. 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`, `bemenu`	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 a desktop notification after each field is copied (e.g. "username copied to clipboard").

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

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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 pipx install $filename. Note that it needs configargparse to work.

Dependencies

You also need:

Python 3.9 or higher
rofi, wofi, fuzzel or bemenu
rbw 1.14 or higher
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

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