Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent (and ssh-agent?)

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 17:02:55 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have asked a similar question on this M/L in the past.  There seems
> to be different ways of making sure that gpg-agent is started prior to
> the desktop being launched, but I can't get any of these to work with
> enlightenment, which I am currently trying out.
> 
> Previously, I was using almost exclusively Fluxbox, which when started
> with startx uses /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/20-gpg-agent as detailed
> here:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258944
> 
> Starting Fluxbox using xdm was less successful.  It doesn't seem to
> read /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/20-gpg-agent.  I also tried different
> things like using ~/.xsession, or ~/.xinitrc, or hacking
> /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox, but nothing appeared to work cleanly.
> 
> Now I use kdm (with /etc/init.d/xdm) to launch enlightenment, but kdm
> does not read /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/20-gpg-agent either.  When kdm
> is used to launch KDE then the file /etc/kde/startup/agent-startup.sh
> is parsed and everything works as expected within KDE.  Enlightenment
> does not have anything similar and kdm itself does not read
> /etc/kde/startup/agent-startup.sh.
> 
> What would you recommend I use to launch gpg-agent so that it works
> with kdm/Enlightenment?

display managers do not use *xinitrc*, that is why it is failing with every dm 
you have tried

Those files are read by startx and you should treats them as if they are read 
only by startx

You have already found the correct way to start apps in kdm, that is where you 
should launch gpg-agent

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