Wallet mysteries

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 28 14:20:43 UTC 2011


Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>> On one laptop I have to give my wallet password
>>> everytime I go to my news account at news.eternal-september.org ;
>>> on my other laptop I am not asked for this.
>>> 
>>> What is the explanation?
>>> And how can I stop this request being made?
>> 
>> Run kwalletmanager
>> find it in systray (it's hidden by default, may have to click ^ triangle
>> thingy), click it
>> right click your wallet (default is kdewallet) -> change password
>> 
>> easiest thing is to set the wallet password to be blank/empty, which will
>> result in it auto-opening and not prompting next time.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> I had tried running kwalletmanager, but assumed it was not working
> as nothing appeared.
> Didn't a wallet used to jump up in the panel?

s/panel/systray/ .  yes, but like I mentioned, it's hidden by default (you 
can configure it to not be hidden if you want).

-- Rex




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