KeePass 2 AppIndicator And AppMenu Extensions For Ubuntu [Updated]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://keepass.info/">KeePass 2</a> is an open source password manager available for Windows and Linux (Mono).</i><br /><br />You can no longer use the KeePass2 tray icon in Ubuntu 13.04 because the old systray whitelist has been removed from Unity, but you can now get <b>AppIndicator support for KeePass2</b> thanks to an extension created by David Lechner:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXbphFswjPQUgQBhpbMjL5eBJivogrh7fhgqO4SMKpz_MF92TxbhyfeLWAvFE_WWwhJZSgreUNXtgalCNWPQ9h3yX6RzyMKH-iS_BjDhbLKpt_GwBdvcKKISEJLlDGltv4K-UMGhJq8gz/s1600/keepass2-indicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Keepass 2 Ubuntu AppIndicator" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqXbphFswjPQUgQBhpbMjL5eBJivogrh7fhgqO4SMKpz_MF92TxbhyfeLWAvFE_WWwhJZSgreUNXtgalCNWPQ9h3yX6RzyMKH-iS_BjDhbLKpt_GwBdvcKKISEJLlDGltv4K-UMGhJq8gz/s320/keepass2-indicator.png" title="Keepass 2 Ubuntu AppIndicator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the same PPA, there's also an <b>Unity appmenu (global menu) plugin</b>, for an even better desktop integration:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYpA_onh1sh6ClI-y1jqtUuWgQDohpsB1ncwKmP3iL6ir2wua4YJGSkowVCrwqjIw6TNM3RD8lGAyEn6wQmvtpmbyb5R3Jihph5t2d3ltV-QtvLj0vJYs8PnfxzWJpK0pKI_WOlb7MfnM/s1600/keepass2-appmenu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYpA_onh1sh6ClI-y1jqtUuWgQDohpsB1ncwKmP3iL6ir2wua4YJGSkowVCrwqjIw6TNM3RD8lGAyEn6wQmvtpmbyb5R3Jihph5t2d3ltV-QtvLj0vJYs8PnfxzWJpK0pKI_WOlb7MfnM/s320/keepass2-appmenu.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Using the AppIndicator extension for KeePass 2, you'll be able to minimize the application to the tray (appindicator) instead of the taskbar, hide / restore the application from the AppIndicator and quickly access the KeePass 2 options or lock the workspace from the AppIndicator menu.<br /><br />You can also hide / restore KeePass2 by scrolling on the AppIndicator: scrolling up restores KeePass 2 while scrolling down hides it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install KeePass 2 Ubuntu AppIndicator plugin</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the PPA and install the KeePass 2 Unity AppIndicator plugin in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dlech/keepass2-plugins<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install keepass2-plugin-application-indicator</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To also <b>install the Unity AppMenu plugin for KeePass 2</b>, use the following command (assuming you've already added the PPA using the first two commands above):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install keepass2-plugin-application-menu</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Initially I wrote about some bugs with the appmenu plugin and the indicator plugin not working in Ubuntu 12.04 - they have all been fixed now!</i></div></div>

KeePass 2 AppIndicator And AppMenu Extensions For Ubuntu [Updated]

KeePass 2 is an open source password manager available for Windows and Linux (Mono). You can no longer use the KeePass2 tray icon in Ubuntu...

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