keychain in dapper

[Luis]

On 5/17/06, Roger Haxton <rhaxton at swbell.net> wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu Dapper on my desktop at the office.  I run SuSE 10.0
> on my laptop and the desktop was previously SuSE.  I'm using keychain to
> manage ssh-agent to allow my RSA key login to my linux servers.  The way
> keychain is normally called is in ~/.bash_profile.  No matter what I've
> tried, I cannot get .bash_profile to be sourced by anything.  I've played
> with setting my umask in .bash_profile to see if it is getting sourced
> (besides keychain not firing up askpass-gnome).  This works brilliantly on my
> laptop.  If .bash_profile isn't the right place for this to work, please
> explain what is the right place.  This should affect the entire session
> rather than just when I fire up a terminal, making .bashrc not the best place
> for this.  The other requirement is that this be windowmanager agnostic.  I
> want this to work no matter what WM I use as I switch between GNOME, KDE, and
> several others depending on my mood of the day.

keychain runs normally by gnome-session when you start your session.
you don't need to tinker Ubuntu (or Debian) for the ask pass program
to be called. My advise to you is to do:

apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

(or if you are a kde lover, install the kde desktop pacakge)

And then before you login, backup your .gnome* and .gconf* directories
to another location, and start fresh.

My guess is that you have some setting that modifies your session to
behave this way. Those settings could be old
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.{defaults,mandatory} files as well... You might
want to move those directories from /etc/gconf and let the real
defaults take over (hint: /var/lib/gconf).

Hope that helps.

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