rofi-bw

Rofi-bw is a read-only interface to your Bitwarden vault, built on Rofi.

I created this after becoming frustrated with the slowness and unreliability of existing interfaces. It aims to resolve both those issues as well as add many more nice features.

Usage

Simply run rofi-bw on the command line. If no existing rofi-bw process is running, after showing the vault for the first time it will continue to run, allowing other invocations of rofi-bw to show the vault without re-asking the master password.

Command-line syntax is detailed in the help page, whose content is copied below:

rofi-bw
Rofi interface to Bitwarden

USAGE:
    rofi-bw [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config-file <CONFIG_FILE>
            Path to the config file; defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/rofi-bw/config.toml`.

            Note that this will not be taken into account if an instance of rofi-bw is already
            running.

        --cipher-name <CIPHER_NAME>
            The name of the cipher that rofi-bw will open showing (must be an exact match)

        --cipher-uuid <CIPHER_UUID>
            The UUID of the cipher that rofi-bw will open showing

    -f, --filter <FILTER>
            The initial filter to use in Rofi

            [default: ]

        --folder-name <FOLDER_NAME>
            The name of the folder that rofi-bw will open showing (must be an exact match)

        --folder-uuid <FOLDER_UUID>
            The UUID of the folder that rofi-bw will open showing

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --reopen-last
            Have `rofi-bw` open showing the previous option in history

        --show <SHOW>
            Which cipher list rofi-bw will open showing; mutually exclusive with `--cipher-uuid`

            [possible values: all, trash, favourites, logins, secure-notes, cards, identities,
            folders]

Once the vault is open, as well as those shown on the screen the controls are as follows:

• Enter: If used on a login, copies the password of the login; if used on a secure note, copies the content of the secure note; if used on a field of an item, copies the content of that field; otherwise, behaves like Shift+Enter.
• Shift+Enter: Open login, card, identity, secure note or folder.
• Escape: Quit rofi-bw

Configuration reference

The configuration file is located in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/rofi-bw/config.toml. It is stored in TOML format. Note that it is only reloaded when the rofi-bw command starts a new session; to reload it, you will have to lock and then unlock your vault. Below is an annotated example of a config file.

# The time until your vault automatically locks (and the rofi-bw daemon exits).
# Can be set to a duration like `2h` or `15m` or `never`.
# Default: 15m
auto_lock = "2h"

# Whether a notification is sent when a value is copied from the vault.
# Default: true
copy_notification = false

# The Client ID to use with the Bitwarden API.
# Default: "desktop"
client_id = "web"

# The device name to use with the Bitwarden API.
# Default: "linux"
device_name = "chrome"

# The device type to use with the Bitwarden API.
# See here for the full list:
# https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/src/Core/Enums/DeviceType.cs
# Default: "Linux"
device_type = "Chrome"

# Optons to pass to Rofi when invoking it 
[rofi_options]

# The binary to invoke.
# Default: "/usr/bin/rofi"
binary = "/usr/local/bin/rofi"

# The number of threads Rofi should use.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-threads` option.
# Zero indicates that Rofi should autodetect the number of threads to use.
# Default: 0
threads = 8

# Whether Rofi should be case sensitive or not.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-case-sensitive` option.
# Default: false
case_sensitive = true

# Wheher Rofi should cycle through the item list when it reaches the bottom.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-cycle` option.
# Default: same as Rofi, which is currently true.
cycle = false

# The path to the configuration file Rofi should load.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-config` option.
# Default: loads Rofi’s default config file
config = "/home/me/.config/rofi/some-custom-config.rasi"

# The scroll method Rofi should use.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-scroll-method` option.
# Possible values: "per_page", "continuous"
# Default: same as Rofi, which is currently "per_page"
scroll_method = "continuous"

# Whether Rofi should normalize the string before matching, allowing `o` to match `ö` and `é` to
# match `e`.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-normalize-match` option.
# Enabling this option currently disables highlighting of the matched part.
# Default: false
normalize_match = false

# Whether Rofi should lazily grab the keyboard, not before the UI is shown.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-no-lazy-grab` option.
# Default: true
lazy_grab = false

# Whether Rofi should act like a normal application window.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-normal-window` option.
# Default: false
normal_window = true

# The matching algorithm Rofi should use.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-matching` option.
# Possible values: "normal", "regex", "glob", "fuzzy", "prefix"
# Default: same as Rofi, which is currently "normal"
matching = "prefix"

# The character that can negate the query. Set to "\u0000" to disable.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-matching-negate-char` option.
# Default: same as Rofi, which is currently "-"
matching_negate_char = "!"

# Path to the theme file format to use.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-theme` option.
# Default: uses Rofi’s normal theme
theme = "my_custom_theme"

# Ad-hoc theme configuration to apply.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-theme-str` option.
# Default: ""
theme_str = """
	element {
		children: [element-icon, element-text];
	}
	element-icon {
		size: 2em;
	}
"""

# Whether clicking outside the Rofi window should cause it to exit.
# This corresponds to Rofi’s `-click-to-exit` and `-no-click-to-exit` options.
# Default: true
click_to_exit = false

Security Features

• No sensitive data is ever written unencrypted to disk; it all stays exclusively in memory.
• It is impossible for any non-root program also running on the system to obtain any of your Bitwarden secrets unless you explicitly give them to it.
• Your master password is not kept around in memory for any longer than absolutely necessary.
• All secrets are securely zeroed out from memory after usage.
• The entire codebase is written in Rust, making it secure and reliable.

Installation

Runtime dependencies:

• Cairo
• ICU
• Pango
• Rofi
• dbus libs

From prebuilt binaries

This method only works when your system ICU is the same version as Ubuntu’s latest.

Head to the releases page and download the latest release as a .tar.gz. One extracted, you can run sudo ./install.sh and rofi-bw will be installed into /usr/local on your system.

From source

This below instructions will install into /usr/local by default; you can edit install.sh to change this.

git clone https://github.com/SabrinaJewson/rofi-bw
cd rofi-bw
cargo dev build --release
sudo ./install.sh