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

The search provider should show up and be enabled in Gnome search preferences and be autoloaded by Gnome-Shell. If that's not the case try closing and reopening your Gnome session.

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.search.service

Add your variables like this :

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

Then restart the service :

systemctl --user restart org.gnome.pass.search.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).