Map CTRL+SHIFT+M to minimize to tray icon (if enabled) [$25 awarded]

[apfelchips]

Expected Behavior

Pressing Ctrl+W should close/minimize to tray the KeepassXC window

Current Behavior

Ctrl+W closes the Database, but keeps the window Open which goes against what most users expect to happen on the usual Window closing Shortcut.

Possible Solution

• Remap Ctrl+W to close the current window / (minimize to tray as chosen in settings)
• Remap Locking/Closing the Database to Shift+Meta+L (comp. Meta+L to lock the Screen on Windows)

Context

Give a more consistent UX when using shortcuts.

Debug Info

KeePassXC - 2.3.4

Operating system: ALL
CPU architecture: ALL
Kernel: ALL

[apfelchips]

I've created a bug bounty on Bountysource for this:
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/62864169-remap-ctrl-w-to-close-window-instead-of-closing-the-db

[droidmonkey]

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you are not the decider for what different keyboard shortcuts are mapped to. In almost all tabbed applications, CTRL+W closes the currently open tab (in our case database). CTRL+M minimizes to tray and CTRL+Q quits. This would be best implemented as CTRL+SHIFT+M.

[apfelchips]

Maybe make these shortcuts reassignable then.
For me KeepassXC isn't really a tabbed application, especially if you only ever open one Database. Heck Ctrl+Tab doesn't even do what it's supposed to.

Coming from 1Password this one little shortcut drives me nuts.
Since on macOS Meta+M also doesn't minimize to tray but to a minimized window in the Dock.
(which is the correct behavior btw., I don't want the window to be minimized I want it to close, hence the ctrl+w, Keepass should just keep running in the background/tray so I can autofill and use the browser extension)

[droidmonkey]

Well we are a tabbed application, even if you close all tabs the welcome screen comes up. CTRL+TAB being broken is captured in #1333.

[rjekker]

I'd like to contribute to the discussion from a different viewpoint: I use the keyboard for almost anything and the fact that there seems to be no way to minimize keepass with a shortcut drives me crazy. I need to grab the mouse and find this little tray icon to minimize the window, which is not user-friendly at all.

[droidmonkey]

@rjekker what operating system are you using? I am not aware of many applications that have shortcuts to minimize. Most Linux window managers let you define custom keys to raise and lower windows. Either way we have CTRL+M to minimize and I will be adding CTRL+SHIFT+M to minimize to tray. Coming back from that state is a little trickier because it requires a global key shortcut (like auto-type uses).