This is a Gnome Shell extension, so all the session-related stuff you describe should have no idea or even care that it's running. I actually don't even use gn

This is a Gnome Shell extension, so all the session-related stuff you describe should have no idea or even care that it's running. I actually don't even use gnome or the gnome session, just bare i3 with lightdm and the gnome keyring unlocks automatically.