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#2599 autotype selected entry - password only
Currently, for global autotype, we have "password only" alternative, which is useful in many scenarios when username is already pre-filled. I believe that similar "password only" function should exist also for "autotype selected entry" function.
Specifically, I recommend considering following additions to KeePass:
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Add "Auto-Type password" option to the "Entry" menu and context menu with the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl-Shift-V". It should work the same like pressing "Ctrl-V" currently does, but it should type only password, not the whole auto-type sequence.
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Add "Auto-type selected entry - password only" entry to "System-wide hot keys" in the "Options/Integrations" settings.
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(optional, more general approach)
Mouse double-click on Username, Password, URL & Notes field in the entry list currently copies the field content to the clipboard (or opens the URL, depending on settings). It might be useful to have the option doing double-click with some modifier key pressed (Ctrl + Double click, Shift + Double click ...) and in this case it should auto-type respective field instead. I mean the same functionality like pressing Ctrl-V does, but only the respective field (Username, password, URL ...) will be typed, not the auto-type sequence.
Thank you in advance for considering this suggestions and thank you very much for all your great work on this very useful tool!
Given you need KeePass open for Ctrl V to work, what's wrong with right clicking on the entry and selecting the required Auto-Type command?
Turn the option on from Tools > Option > Interface, Main Window, Show additional auto-type menu commands.
If you have an entry that uses password only, add an additional "target window" un the Auto-type tab, with password only. Pressing the hot keys will offer you both options.
See 1 above.
cheers, Paul
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I did not know about "Show additional auto-type" option in settings, thank you for telling me, it seems useful and I agree it partially solves point 1. Having keyboard shortcut will make it just more faster since you will not need to switch from using keyboard to using mouse and back.
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You have many cases when window where you need to type passwords do not have any specific title so they cannot be configured for global auto-type. Good example is window with title "Windows security" which opens on many occasions. If I have hundreds of passwords in database which could be used in such a context, Global Auto-Type based on windows title selection is a blind way.
Additionally, you have windows which sometime ask for both username+password (initial logon) and sometime for password only (unlock) and in both cases have the same window title.
And finally, you have password entries (e.g. Active Directory password) which could be used in huge number of contexts, you could have easily tens of applications which are AD integrated and all of them use different windows titles - it may be not worth of time defining specific auto-type sequence for each scenario in advance.
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I believe there should be some easy & general way how you could quickly type various entry components to the application. Implementing my recommendation will make it a 2-step process - press Ctrl+Alt+K to open KeePass (or other global hotkey assigned) and do the double click holding Ctrl button (or similar) on respective field. This is fast and intuitive, IMHO.
Your suggestion covers that only partially. You could type Username and Password this way, but not the URL or Notes and it is also less intuitive because you have to select from the list of pre-canned auto-type sequences from which only two of them are relevant. Therefore it would be great if both options are available.
KeePass allows you to define a Global Auto-Type password only key sequence. Tools > Options > Integration.
The KeePassEnhancedEntryView plug-in uses Ctrl V to Auto-Type the password, once you select the password.
cheers, Paul
How will you use Global Auto-Type with window like this one attached bellow? It is common one when establishing RDP session or accessing file share.
Pressing global auto-type hotkey does not offer any entries to choose because I do not name entries "Windows Security" and even this does not work (not sure if it is a real title or not). Anyway, it would be a huge amount of configuration work to make it function in each context and it is in fact such a basic operation done so many times that it is sad there is no hotkey for it available.
So each time I must press Ctrl-Alt-K to Open KeePass, then Ctrl-C to copy password, then Alt-TAB to return to application and finaly Ctrl-V to paste it.