Questions tagged [gnome-keyring]
GNOME Keyring is a daemon application that stores passwords, keys, certificates and makes them available to applications.
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Disabling system modal behaviour of GNOME 3 password prompts
When GNOME Keyring, needs a password to add an SSH key to the agent, it pops up a system modal prompt to get the password from you. I use KeePass, so this means that if I forgot to copy the password ...
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Error "secret-tool: Cannot create an item in a locked collection"
I'm following the commands at, and created my own answer that only worked once:
How do you enable the secret-tool command (backed by gnome-keyring, libsecret and dbus) in a headless CentOS Docker ...
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How to use Kwallet as default keyring
I am using KDE desktop (plasma 5 ) environment with opensuse leap 42.1.
Many programs in my system use native keychain to store password like (JetBrain products). But when saving the password, I ...
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gnome-keyring: couldn't find any place to import files
I need to use a client certificate. I was able to import it successfully on Windows and Mac, however when I am trying to import it on Linux I am getting the following error:
$ gnome-keyring import ...
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Why doesn't the keyring used by XFCE migrate to i3?
I'm moving from Xubuntu XFCE to i3 and I have this option checked in XFCE,
Launch GNOME services on startup Enable this option if you need the GNOME keyring daemon to be run on startup.
I can't ...
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How to find out what program is trying to open the GNOME keyring?
Some tens of minutes after I login with a KDE session, I get a modal gcr-prompter window asking for the master password of the GNOME keyring.
The prompt does not include any information about what ...
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Arch/ XFCE - Disable global keyboard grabbing for gcr/ gnome-keyring
I am using gnome-keyring as ssh-agent on my arch/ xfce system.
Since I have multiple ssh-keys, I additionally have a password manager to store their keys.
Adding those ssh-keys to the keyring works ...
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Starting an App takes very long when using a custom shortcut in gnome wayland
I am using gnome 42.4 wayland.
I want to open the terminal app when I press Super + T.
In the settings under keyboard I set a custom shortcut:
Name: run terminal
Command: xfce4-terminal
Shortcut: ...
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How to change the order of keys in gnome-keyring
I have 2 SSH keys in the gnome-keyring (let's name them AA and BB) and I have a lot of problems because I need to use the BB key(for example for a bitbucket server) and it automatically uses AA key ...
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Auto-unlock Chrome default keyring
Is there any way to auto-unlock the default keyring that pops-up on every start of Chrome, that works on even non-Ubuntu distros? I am using a Debian-based distro. Is there any solution which is ...
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Shell script to unlock gnome-keyring for school internet upon login
My school's wifi network is not protected merely with a WPA/WPA2 password, it requires authentication (PEAP, MSCHAPv2). I can log into it fine (the credentials are in my network connections) however ...
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How can I stop GNOME Keyring from offering to remember a keyring password?
I use a Firefox extension to put my passwords into GNOME Keyring. I protect this keyring with a password. Whenever I start Firefox, GNOME prompts me for the keyring password:
However, notice how each ...
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Update gnome-keyring password via terminal
I am on Arch Linux, but I am still new to it.
I want to update my gnome-keyring password through the terminal.
How do I go about doing that?
I've already come across this similar question, but the ...
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Where do I export gnome-keyring-daemon's ssh agent socket so that it is available at launch of WM?
I use gnome-keyring to manage my ssh keys. In order for that to work, I must set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK accordingly, which is prodived by gnome-keyring-daemon -s. For use in shells, I can easily do this in my ...
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Non root user unable to conect wifi network on the standard way [LINUX MINT]
I am a enthusiastic linux user and I offered my experience to perform system upgrade on 40 old Classmate PCs (SEE system information on image bellow ) which were runing a deprecated ubuntu version. So,...
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