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

[Mick]

On Tuesday 25 May 2010 22:59:45 you wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:05:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ahhh! I see ...
>
> > You have already found the correct way to start apps in kdm, that is
> > where you should launch gpg-agent
>
> Hmmm, you lost me there Alan.  I have noticed that launching KDE with kdm
> reads the /etc/kde/startup/agent-startup.sh file, but that is not the case
> when I use kdm to launch other WMs, like fluxbox or enlightenment.
>
> Enlightenment has its own startup directory for launching applications at
> start up (.e/e/applications/startup/), but placing in there the agent-
> startup.sh file does not launch gpg-agent.  :-(

This was simpler than I thought.  The 'Custom' session in the kdm drop down 
actually reads ~/.xsession, instead of 
/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/fluxbox.desktop.  Once I discovered that I added 
this much in it just before the exec line and it works just fine!
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if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
        kill $(ps ux | awk '/gpg-agent/ && !/awk/ {print $2}') >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
  eval "$(/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon)"
fi 

exec /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
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Regards,
Mick