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KPXC is brilliant. Recently I switched to it from BitWarden and I am satisfied. The only issue for me is the autotype support on Wayland (it's not there yet; cu

KPXC is brilliant. Recently I switched to it from BitWarden and I am satisfied. The only issue for me is the autotype support on Wayland (it's not there yet; currently only able to auto fill password and username for xwayland app).

brightball 5y ago
I am curious why you switched from Bitwarden? Usually when people are exiting a password manager it’s migrating to Bitwarden or KeePass but you’re the first I’ve heard moving from Bitwarden itself.
- antiframe 5y ago
  I too switched from BitWarden to KeePass. I was reading about browser security and became concerned about running my password manager in the same process as the browser and relying on its sandbox. With KeePassXC I have the option to either forgo browser integration completely or use their addon which communicates to the manager and asks for an entry, which prompts for permission itself or uses an allow list by URL. That makes it much harder for a website to somehow break the sandbox and access my entire database. It's a small change but it does reduce the attack surface as well as force me to manage my data myself which I want to do more of. Also with BitWarden, their UI annoyed me when I needed a password outside the browser. L
- mrandish 5y ago
  I'm not the person you asked but I switched from BitWarden to KeepassXC. BW was very good so the only reason I looked for an alternative was I wanted something that would support entering passwords with autotype in OS apps instead of just the browser.
- longstation 5y ago
  Sorry for my late reply. I replied for the other question above.
Semaphor 5y ago
Curious, why did you switch from BitWarden? It’s usually the other way around (though personally I never felt the need to switch from KPXC).
- gnramires 5y ago
  I chose KPXC because I am in easy access to the database, and since I already pay for cloud hosting I just sync the database on the cloud (I use Seafile, I recommend!). Open and convenient :) I'm sure Bitwarden is more than adequate as well though.
  - Semaphor 5y ago
    > I use Seafile, I recommend I recently tried it, as I don’t need 90% of the features NextCloud offers anyway. Sadly, the installation process seems far more complicated, and I ended up just abandoning it and going back to NC after getting unclear error messages.
    - gnramires 5y ago
      I see; I use hosted version (some here https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/ https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/ -- they should advertise it better imo). Had no problems from the beginning (there are clients for Linux/Win/etc. as well). I like the idea of self-hosting a lot, but I also think it's fine to have hosted services of OSS (I think you need to be technically oriented to make it work easily and reliably, which isn't everyone).
  - vetinari 5y ago
    I've migrated from KPXC to Bitwarden because of all the sync conflicts and having to diff different versions and figuring out, which data is latest (yes, keepass-diff is a thing). With Bitwarden, I cannot create a new password or change existing one without being online, but I consider that a small price for not having to deal with conflicts anymore.
    - gnramires 5y ago
ayushnix 5y ago
> The only issue for me is the autotype support on Wayland Are you using a wlroots compositor like sway or GNOME/KDE?
- dorfsmay 5y ago
  Not sure what you mean but the default KeepassXC on Fedora 35 with Wayland does not do autofill in Firefox.
  - ayushnix 5y ago
    I'm going to take a guess and say that you're using GNOME if you're using Fedora and yeah, I don't think auto type works on GNOME's wayland version yet. They're working on their own protocol called libie the last time I checked. However, auto typing on Wayland works pretty well if you use wlroots compositors/window managers like sway.
    - dorfsmay 5y ago
      Using default GNOME, yes.
  - joshuajill 5y ago
    I'm on Debian Bullseye stable with Wayland GNOME out of the box, and autotype works fine.
    - longstation 5y ago
      Any chance the app you used is under xwayland? I am asking because Firefox under xwayland has auto-type working.
- longstation 5y ago
  I am using both KDE and GNOME. When Firefox is under xwayland, it works. When switched to wayland, it stops working.

brightball 5y ago

I am curious why you switched from Bitwarden? Usually when people are exiting a password manager it’s migrating to Bitwarden or KeePass but you’re the first I’ve heard moving from Bitwarden itself.

antiframe 5y ago
I too switched from BitWarden to KeePass. I was reading about browser security and became concerned about running my password manager in the same process as the browser and relying on its sandbox. With KeePassXC I have the option to either forgo browser integration completely or use their addon which communicates to the manager and asks for an entry, which prompts for permission itself or uses an allow list by URL. That makes it much harder for a website to somehow break the sandbox and access my entire database. It's a small change but it does reduce the attack surface as well as force me to manage my data myself which I want to do more of. Also with BitWarden, their UI annoyed me when I needed a password outside the browser. L
mrandish 5y ago
I'm not the person you asked but I switched from BitWarden to KeepassXC. BW was very good so the only reason I looked for an alternative was I wanted something that would support entering passwords with autotype in OS apps instead of just the browser.
longstation 5y ago
Sorry for my late reply. I replied for the other question above.

Semaphor 5y ago

Curious, why did you switch from BitWarden? It’s usually the other way around (though personally I never felt the need to switch from KPXC).

gnramires 5y ago
I chose KPXC because I am in easy access to the database, and since I already pay for cloud hosting I just sync the database on the cloud (I use Seafile, I recommend!). Open and convenient :) I'm sure Bitwarden is more than adequate as well though.
- Semaphor 5y ago
  > I use Seafile, I recommend I recently tried it, as I don’t need 90% of the features NextCloud offers anyway. Sadly, the installation process seems far more complicated, and I ended up just abandoning it and going back to NC after getting unclear error messages.
  - gnramires 5y ago
    I see; I use hosted version (some here https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/ https://www.seafile.com/en/partner/ -- they should advertise it better imo). Had no problems from the beginning (there are clients for Linux/Win/etc. as well). I like the idea of self-hosting a lot, but I also think it's fine to have hosted services of OSS (I think you need to be technically oriented to make it work easily and reliably, which isn't everyone).
- vetinari 5y ago
  I've migrated from KPXC to Bitwarden because of all the sync conflicts and having to diff different versions and figuring out, which data is latest (yes, keepass-diff is a thing). With Bitwarden, I cannot create a new password or change existing one without being online, but I consider that a small price for not having to deal with conflicts anymore.
  - gnramires 5y ago

ayushnix 5y ago

> The only issue for me is the autotype support on Wayland Are you using a wlroots compositor like sway or GNOME/KDE?

dorfsmay 5y ago
Not sure what you mean but the default KeepassXC on Fedora 35 with Wayland does not do autofill in Firefox.
- ayushnix 5y ago
  I'm going to take a guess and say that you're using GNOME if you're using Fedora and yeah, I don't think auto type works on GNOME's wayland version yet. They're working on their own protocol called libie the last time I checked. However, auto typing on Wayland works pretty well if you use wlroots compositors/window managers like sway.
  - dorfsmay 5y ago
    Using default GNOME, yes.
- joshuajill 5y ago
  I'm on Debian Bullseye stable with Wayland GNOME out of the box, and autotype works fine.
  - longstation 5y ago
    Any chance the app you used is under xwayland? I am asking because Firefox under xwayland has auto-type working.
longstation 5y ago
I am using both KDE and GNOME. When Firefox is under xwayland, it works. When switched to wayland, it stops working.