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Another unsolved feature in Wayland is ssh-agent/gpg-agent support. I haven't found a way to make it work yet. It's either multiple agents or many fresh agents
by cm3 10y ago
Another unsolved feature in Wayland is ssh-agent/gpg-agent support. I haven't found a way to make it work yet. It's either multiple agents or many fresh agents running.
- jorams 10y agoWhy does Wayland need any sort of ssh-agent/gpg-agent support? I can't think of any reason for Wayland to have anything to do with their functionality, but I'm not at all familiar with Wayland.
- cm3 10y agoThe way this works in X11 is that you usually start your X11 env such that the environment variable pointing to the agent (which got started) is shared and the agent is accessible by applications. That way running ssh or gpg in any xterm will just work. This is not possible at the moment in Wayland. Think of it like OSX's keychain.
- eeZi 10y agoWhy shouldn't it be possible? You can just setup your agent before you start Wayland, it inherits the environment.
- cm3 10y agoHuh, I'll try that. I never thought of it like that because due to conventions the agent was always part of xinit. Might need to come up with a different way of running wayland compositors to keep the actually TTY shell free of the agent.