kmail and kwallet
P .NIKOLIC
p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com
Fri Feb 8 13:13:38 GMT 2013
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 06:29:06 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2013 06:24:38 phanisvara das did opine:
> Message additions Copyright Friday 08 February 2013 by Gene Heskett
>
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 04:40:44 -0500
> >
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > and kwallet in general can be configured to use no password,
> > > > which is perfectly safe on a singl user system. if others (who
> > > > you don't trust) use the machine, better keep a password.
> > >
> > > Now that I'd like to do if only the pw requester would steal
> > > focus. It doesn't so its 2 extra mouse clicks, 1 to wake up the
> > > mouse and one to change focus, to get focus so you can enter your
> > > pw.
> > >
> > > 10.04 LTS 32 bit system here. If you can point me to the right
> > > files to edit to get rid of the pw requester, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > i'm afraid i don't understand the problem. if you do what i
> > suggested, kwallet won't pop up anymore at all, since there's no
> > password to ask from you.
> >
> > to do that open the kwallet manager (or whatever it's called),
> > usually it sits in your taskbar somewhere. right-clicking on the (or
> > any, if you have more than one) allows you to change the password.
> > once you set both to "" (blank), there's no botheration anymore.
> >
> > as was mentioned in a previous thread some time, the passwords are
> > still encrypted on disk, but kwallet won't require a password once
> > your user is logged into KDE.
>
> The problem is, there isn't such a beast on this machine. It is
> whatever that after starting kmail, pops up and asks for my user pw,
> when I send the first mail after the start. It doesn't grab focus so
> you wind up typing blind until the click once to wake the rf mouse up
> so you can see the pointer move, find the requester and click once on
> it. That is kwallet, but a fairly diligent search fails to find a
> configurater for it.
>
> Cheers, Gene
Go to System settings password & user account then click on KDE
Wallet top of the page untick Enable the KDE wallet subsystem apply
problem of KDE wallet solved .
Pete
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