Bug#599757: gnome-keyring: Fails to unlock the keyring in Lxde with GDM3

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 10 octobre 2010 à 23:19 +0200, Domenico Cufalo a écrit :
> I use a system with Gnome, LXDE and Openbox, in my pc with Sid (32bit).
> 
> Following the last update of gnome-keyring, after login with GDM3, when I
> launch for the first time programs such as mail-notification, empathy etc., the
> system asks me to unlock the keyring.
> 
> This is boring and it is a regression compared to the previous situation.

Interesting.

The problem is that LXDE doesn’t launch gnome-keyring at the session
startup; it is only launched for GNOME, to avoid being intrusive.

However, the PAM module used by gdm3 will still launch it in the
background with a minimal initialization. If you don’t use
gnome-keyring, this is a waste of resources, so I changed it to disable
itself after 10 seconds if it is not initialized properly in the
meantime.

The correct solution, if you want to use it, is to launch gnome-keyring
in your LXDE session. You can do it by
copying /usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop
to /etc/xdg/autostart.

Cheers,
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