Carl Worth wrote: > Package: seahorse-plugins > Version: 2.28.1-2 > Severity: important > > I recently switched from running GNOME to running xfce4 instead, and > when I did so I found that my email program no longer brought up the > nice, graphical prompt for my GPG passphrase, (nor remembered it from > one email to the next). > > I tracked the bug down to the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60seahorse > which says: > > if [ -n "$GNOMERC" ] && [ -x $SEAHORSE ] && [ -z "$GPG_AGENT_INFO" ]; then > STARTUP="$SEAHORSE --execute $STARTUP" > fi
This is the changelog snippet:
seahorse (2.22.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Josselin Mouette ]
* seahorse.Xsession: only start seahorse-agent for GNOME sessions.
Closes: #443115, #472641.
> To workaround this for now, I kludged things by adding another file in
> the same directory (55xfce) that simply does:
>
> # Set GNOMERC so that we get seahorse within an XFCE session
> GNOMERC=1
>
> With this, seahorse and my email program now work exactly as I want.
>
> Obviously my kludge involves a lie, so that's not desireable. A proper
> fix would be to simply start seahorse in any X session for which
> everything it requires is available. Is that a matter of simply
> removing the '[ -n "$GNOMERC" ]' from the above?
Yes, but that's not a good solution for everyone...
> Or is there some capability that both GNOME and xfce4 are providing
> (that perhaps some other session would not) that should be checked for?
Before enabling it again in Xfce I'd like to hear the opionion of the Xfce
maintainers.
Cheers,
Emilio
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