How To: Configure LaunchBar for use with 1Password

In the most recent nightly builds of LaunchBar 5.3, Objective Development added brand new support for selecting 1Password's Login items. This allows easy selection of Login items for Go & Fill support. See our blog post for a quick rundown on how to use it.

There are a couple of configuration issues that can pop up however.

Calculator

By default, LaunchBar will use the first letter — in this case a number — to open the calculator. If 1pass is typed then it will automatically switch to the calculator mode. There are two ways to get around this:

1. Simply type password to access your 1Password Logins.
2. Turn off the "Switch to Calculator when typing a digit (0-9)" feature on the Calculator pane in LaunchBar's preferences.

Select History

The second potential conflict is that by default LaunchBar uses a couple of the same keyboard shortcuts that 1Password uses. The ⌘\ and ⌥⌘\ shortcuts are used in the 1Password browser extension to fill a Login and open the extension popup respectively. LaunchBar uses these same shortcuts for two of its clipboard features.

There are three options for resolving this conflict:

1. Change 1Password's keyboard shortcuts in 1Password's preferences.
2. Disable the "Show clipboard history" and "Select from history" keyboard shortcuts on the Clipboard History pane in LaunchBar's preferences.
3. Change those two keyboard shortcuts in LaunchBar.