XFCE in F-16 and ssh-agent

[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent (or something similar like 
gnome-keyring) working on XFCE. I know almost nothing about this stuff, 
but here's something I've found with Google:

Bug report against GDM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632304

Upstream bug report, I wonder if Fedora is shipping these patches 
already: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5912

A comment on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/465996/
The latter line should probably be "xfconf-query -n -c xfce4-session -p 
/startup/ssh-agent/type -t string -s ssh-agent" but neither of these 
make any difference.

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,
is changing GDM to something else (e.g. LXDM) helping?

Miro Hrončok

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2011/11/26 Ville-Pekka Vainio :
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent (or something similar like
> gnome-keyring) working on XFCE. I know almost nothing about this stuff,
> but here's something I've found with Google:
>
> Bug report against GDM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632304
>
> Upstream bug report, I wonder if Fedora is shipping these patches
> already: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5912
>
> A comment on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/465996/
> The latter line should probably be "xfconf-query -n -c xfce4-session -p
> /startup/ssh-agent/type -t string -s ssh-agent" but neither of these
> make any difference.
>
> --
> Ville-Pekka Vainio
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[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

27.11.2011 00:24, Miro Hrončok kirjoitti:
> is changing GDM to something else (e.g. LXDM) helping?

I installed lxdm and tried setting DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm in 
/etc/sysconfig/desktop but apparently lxdm kept segfaulting. I am using 
the ATI proprietary drivers in order to save some power, which may be 
causing some problems.

[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

Hi,

I "fixed" this by enabling GNOME services on startup from the session 
settings and then commenting out the Exec lines in /etc/xdg/autostart 
for orca and caribou. If they are enabled, I get a caribou dialog and 
orca reads something which I can't understand when I log in.

I also have GNOME installed which is why this works. I just can't use 
GNOME because it's buggy with the closed source ATI display driver. XFCE 
is now working fine for me, though :)

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:48:45 +0200
Ville-Pekka Vainio  dijo:
> I "fixed" this by enabling GNOME services on startup from the session 
> settings and then commenting out the Exec lines in /etc/xdg/autostart 
> for orca and caribou. If they are enabled, I get a caribou dialog and 
> orca reads something which I can't understand when I log in.

Thanks. I had Gnome services set to start up automatically, but always
got a warning about caribou. I fixed the caribou.autostart.desktop file
and now I no longer get the popup about caribou.