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1Password Shortcuts on Wayland
1Password is an application that works very well when users can invoke it from anywhere. Quick Access in particular is a feature that is meant to be invoked from anywhere on your desktop. However, as many of you know, the Wayland developers made a deliberate choice to not allow applications to set global shortcuts. To my knowledge, all Wayland implementations have continued to honor this choice. The reasoning is valid, though: global shortcuts make keyloggers trivial.
1Password can run as a native Wayland application, and defaults to XWayland. This, however, does not help since the primary desktop environment is itself Wayland.
For a variety of reasons, we have provided command line options for several of the most useful 1Password commands. In this article, I'll describe how to use those options to set up global shortcuts for 1Password with both Gnome Shell and Sway. It is, fortunately, very easy.
Gnome Shell
For this example, I'm running Gnome Shell 40.4.0, Wayland mode, on Fedora Core 34.
Start by finding Keyboard > Customize Shortcuts in your Settings application.
Next, select Customize Shortcuts
Your list of custom shortcuts may start empty, but you will want to get to something like this:
Press the + button at the bottom to create a new shortcut, and you'll get a screen like this:
As you create each shortcut, name each one in a way that makes sense to you. In the Command field, you will write a trivial script that invokes 1Password with the option that you want. Once you have created that invocation, set the keyboard shortcut as you desire. I recommend multiple key bindings that all work together. The following is the 1Password defaults set on other platforms, and on XOrg-based displays.
| Name | Command | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Open or Toggle 1Password | 1password --toggle | Ctrl + p |
| Lock 1Password | 1password --lock | Ctrl + Shift + L |
| Open Quick Access | 1password --quick-access | Ctrl + Shift + Space |
note: there is no default for Open or Toggle 1Password, so I made something up.
Sway
Sway does not have a GUI configurator, but instead does everything in the configuration file at ~/.config/sway/config. Fortunately, this is very easy to set up:
bindsym Ctrl+Shift+l 1password --lock
byndsym Ctrl+Shift+space exec 1password --quick-access
KDE Plasma
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So whenever I press
ctrl+shift+spacequick access opens.There is no option in 1Password itself to change the shortcut or disable it. There is no option in KDE's (xwindow)
Shortcutsto change it. So I don't know how to fix it. Except gogrep-ing through dotfiles, what I don't want to do just to get my workflow backI'm using KDE plasma without Wayland (because of Nvidia drivers)
I like the idea of quick access. But new features need a disable toggle
1P_PeterGCommunity Manager
Hi @JoeVandelay,
sorry to hear about this issue. Can you tell us a little more about how this arose?
The reason I ask is that this new functionality allows you to customize the shortcuts to nearly anything you want - for example the
Ctrl + Shift + Spaceto open Quick Access can be changed toCtrl + Shift +S, or any other number of shortcuts you choose.Also, these are user-determined shortcuts, so you don't have to set up any in Wayland if you don't want to.
Apologies in advance if I'm misunderstanding something. No matter what, we want to make sure 1Password works with your setup, in the way that works best for you. 👍
I need to change this:
Open Quick Access 1password --quick-access Ctrl + Shift + Spaceon KDE Plasma.
Guys, you can't just start to mess with peoples shortcuts without a way to disable it. Who thought this was a good idea!?
Big no, no, no, no!
I'm running a mouseless tiling setup and this breaks everything without warning...
