unlocking gnome keychain at login?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday August 22 2024 08:22:03 Duncan wrote:

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>But here's some ideas where I'd start were I to need such a 
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>* I've seen the kwallet-pam package.
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>Searching kwallet in the gentoo (plus a few overlays) package database, I 
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>* kwalletcli   This is a CLI/scripting kwallet interface and ships with a 
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>* signon-kwallet-extension  "kwallet extension for signond"  Homepage: 

My KDE wallet works fine (and isn't unlocked on sign-in until I do so).

Occasionally I get a nag from a GTk application about the (Gnome) keyring not being unlocked, and most of the time I then need to figure out again how to unlock it. That's what my question was about.

I *can* now use KeePassXC which has a "Secret Service" replacement that works, and even gives me Qt-based manager of the passwords in question (plus the possibility to store them in a "wallet" that lives on a NAS rather than in some hidden file). I just have to remember starting it before the gnome keyring is auto-started on demand.