A search provider for GNOME Shell that adds support for searching in pass.

Names of passwords will show up in GNOME Shell searches, choosing one will copy the corresponding content to the clipboard.

Installation

Packages

TODO

Manual

Ensure that python-gobject is installed on your system (probably already the case):

$PACKAGE_MANAGER install python-gobject

Download or clone this repository:

git clone git@github.com:jle64/gnome-shell-pass-search-provider.git

Run the installation script as root:

sudo ./install.sh

If you need to you can change the installation paths to suit your system:

sudo SYSCONFDIR=/etc DATADIR=/usr/share LIBDIR=/usr/lib LIBEXECDIR=/usr/lib ./install.sh

Close and reopen your GNOME session or (if not on Wayland) just restart the Shell (alt + f2, r). The search provider should show up and be enabled in Gnome search preferences and be autoloaded by GNOME Shell.

Environment variables

If you are configuring pass through environment variables, such as PASSWORD_STORE_DIR, make sure to set them in a way that will propagate to the search provider executable. If you are on a systemd-based system, you can set them in the unit file :

systemctl --user edit org.gnome.Pass.SearchProvider.service

Add your variables like this :

[Service]
Environment=PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=/my/passwords/path

Then restart the service :

systemctl --user restart org.gnome.Pass.SearchProvider.service

Compatibility

This implements the org.gnome.Shell.SearchProvider2 D-Bus API. I'm not sure since when this has been in Gnome nor until when it will stay. This works fine on Gnome 3.22 and I expect it will continue to work for some time with ulterior versions.

Troubleshooting

If this does not work for you, make sure to look to wherever Gnome and D-Bus are logging for error messages (in the journal on systemd-using systems).