[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#523322: Bug#523322: Bug#523322:

[Luca Niccoli]

On 1 September 2010 07:31, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote

> I'm not using an older version, I'm using a more recent version :)
>
> ii  gnome-keyring  2.30.3-1       GNOME keyring services (daemon and
> tools)

I'm using that too. Probably the version of Xfce you're using has the bug fixed

> That's because of the OnlyShowIn line.

I had changed that; it was becaus xfce doesn't check /usr/share/gnome/autostart.
Copying the modified file in /etc/xdg/autostart made it appear and run
at login, but gnome-keyring still doesn't work as a SSH agent.

> Good point. So yes, either it's run as part of Xsession.d stuff (which
> was not possible, aiui?) or xfce4-session runs it, and do it correctly,
> for example using your patch.

It used to be possible to start it in Xsession.d, but now it messes up
the new DBus interface to gnome-keyring (it starts too early I seem to
remember)

> And I'm afraid it might break existing systems. For example, I have
> gnome-keyring installed (and it manages password for stuff like
> evolution) but I *dont* want to use it as ssh-agent. If I tune
> xfce4-session to fix g-k-d start, will it force that behavior?

I think the default is for gnome-keyring to be a ssh-agent; this can
be changed via gconf (setting
/apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false).
I realise that this is a bit inconvenient; but I'd say that if one
uses many gnome applications will have to install gconf-editor anyway.
(I don't like the fact that there isn't a simpler way to configure
gnome-keyring if you're not using gnome, but this is what upstream has
chosen and I don't think that relying on a bug in xfce4-session not to
impose the ssh-agent to people would be a sensisble choice)
Cheers,

Luca