macOS: it's not possible to open entries using keyboard shortcuts

[latvia234]

Description
After enabling a vault I hit cmd+f and there will appear some entries. When there are entries visible I want to open them with keyboard shortcuts. When hitting the down arrow I can select, but not open the entry.

Expected behavior
To open the entry after hitting the return-key. And after this I would like to cmd+c and cmd+v a password when needed. Why does KeePassium behave like this?

Screenshots

[keepassium]

Hi, thanks for the feedback and sorry for the delay.

Why does KeePassium behave like this?

This behavior depends on your macOS version and which KeePassium build you run.

The native Mac version of the app is built using Mac Catalyst. There, keyboard focus/selection depends on macOS version; the app does not handle this at all and I'm not sure if this is even possible without some dirty fragile low-level tricks.

To complicate things further, it is also possible to run the iOS version of KeePassium on an Apple Silicon Mac. In this case, the system pretends to be an iPad, and handles keyboard events — you guessed it — differently again. And since this is supposed to "just work", the app has little to no control over keyboard-based selection.

I have tested this case on macOS 13.2.1, and the right panel does automatically switch to the currently selected entry.

Can you confirm your macOS version, please?

[latvia234]

sorry for the delay.

That's no problem!

Can you confirm your macOS version, please?

12.6.3

It seems that it is a better solution to just update to a newer Mac (with a newer macOS).

Edit: accidentally closed.

[keepassium]

12.6.3

Oh, I understand you :) This was my version only a week ago. But debugging on iOS 16.4 requires Xcode 14.3, which requires macOS 13, so here we are…

It seems that it is a better solution to just update to a newer Mac (with a newer macOS).

Most likely, yeah. Though there is no guarantee this won't break again later on :)