How do I make Alt+V pull up KeePassXC if it's not already open AND trigger its auto-type prompt? (Mint 22.3)

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-type` from 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.

.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...

If you use Hyperland, you can simply setup the keybind in hypr.config (also makes it easier to change your default file manager, etc)

So how did you solve it?

Huh? It's in the comments...

Do you mean the one about hyprland? That's the only other comment I see

Interesting... There's a comment here by .lol, so perhaps your instance doesn't federate with lemy.lol?

In their comment they suggested this command:

```
bash -c 'pgrep -x keepassxc > /dev/null && keepassxc --auto-type || keepassxc'
```

Actually, this code didn't work after all! It brings up the autotype window once, but then it brings up the main window thereafter...

Yeah you probably have to play around with the flags to figure out the right approach. I can not look into it right now

I don't really understand how to figure out flags, so I just set it to start up on boot and just log in from the start and that basically fixes it.