Using gnome-keyring and LXQt as Desktop Environment

Hi guys,

I want to install `gnome-keyring` service on my system. I'm using the LXQt as Desktop Environment. I had an issue for integrating ssh-agent with `gnome-keyring` and I noticed I should update this line in `desktop` files of `gnome-keyring`:

```

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;

```

to

```

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;LXQt;

```

So I re-packaged the `gnome-keyring` as follow:

```

(define-public gnome-keyring-modified

(package

(inherit gnome-keyring)

(name "gnome-keyring-modified")

(arguments

(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments gnome-keyring)

((#:phases phases)

`(modify-phases ,phases

(add-after 'unpack 'patch-desktop-files

(lambda _

(substitute* '("daemon/gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop.in.in")

(("OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;") "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;LXQt;"))

(substitute* '("daemon/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop.in.in")

(("OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;") "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;LXQt;"))

(substitute* '("daemon/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop.in.in")

(("OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;") "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;LXQt;"))

#t))))))))

```

The above package definition is ok and works, but since I want to use the `gnome-keyring` as service I should update `gnome-keyring-configuration` in my system configuration, so I'm using this config:

```

...

(service gnome-keyring-service-type

(gnome-keyring-configuration

(keyring gnome-keyring-modified)

(pam-services '(("passwd" . passwd)

("sddm" . login)))))

...

```

Now I reconfigured the system successfully, but `gnome-keyring` service is using the default `gnome-keyring`, not `gnome-keyring-modified` package, while I set the `keyring` to `gnome-keyring-modified`.

Do you have any idea?

--

Hamzeh Nasajpour

PantherX Team

Hello Hamzeh,

the gnome-keyring service is not the only place, in which gnome-keyring

is used. As far as I understand, all it does is unlocking your login

keyring; you have to ensure on your own, that the keyring argument

passed to it matches the keyring used by your applications.

I think you have two options going ahead. One would be to mark your

keyring as a replacement to the existing one. That would require the

non-trivial effort of maintaining a Guix fork while the patch is not

upstreamed and lobbying for its inclusion in mainline Guix. Is there

some merit in adding LXQt to this line or even dropping it entirely?

The second would be to replace gnome-keyring in every package using it

through package transformations.

Regards,

Leo