Just a few comments:

+1 for Xfce.  It gracefully delivers a precise and efficient desktop
environment.

My install of Fedora 27 Xfce includes Seahorse (Applications > Accessories
> Passwords and Keys).
Have you tried Seahorse?

Is the gpg-agent process running?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/188668/how-does-gpg-agent-work
https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html


On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:53 AM, Gour <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm ex-Xfce user who was using Gnome for some time after migrating from
> Debian
> to Fedora at the time of fc25-beta. However, I noticed that there are too
> many
> stuff running on my machine for which I do not have real use, so yesterday
> I
> did migrate (back) to Xfce. Great job!
>
> Very soon I had fully working desktop and was even able to quickly get rid
> of
> Gnome-stuff, replacing Evolution with vdiryncer/khal/khard  was the most
> sensitive issue...all in all, Xfce is such a wonderful environment
> providing
> much more customization very easily...
>
> However, there is one pending issue which I'm not sure how to resolve...on
> Gnome handling of ssh/gpg2 agents were working out of the box, but not sure
> what is recommended way to do it on Xfce in order to have my default gpg2
> ID
> loaded as well as to have persistent ssh-agent so I can access remote
> servers
> without retyping my passwords.
>
> In the past I was happily using keychain (from Funtoo project), but it had
> problems running under fish-shell and handling gpg2 agent. In new(er)
> version
> it seems that gpg2 problem is solved, but, apparently, not when using it
> under
> fish shell, so my question is if you have recommendation how to get the
> same
> functionality as under GNOME (gnome-keyring) without pulling too many GNOME
> deps?
>
>
>
>
>
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