To get rid of the convoluted and error prone start_agent function in .bashrc, just start ssh-agent and gpg-agent as user service with systemd. A big, fat warning before:<\/strong> Don’t even try to use gpg-agent as a replacement for ssh-agent! It’s so buggy that it won’t work!<\/p>\n To start the agents as user service, you have to create the following services in $HOME\/.config\/systemd\/user (create the directory if it doesn’t exist):<\/p>\n gpg-agent.service:<\/p>\n ssh-agent.service:<\/p>\n Then enable them:<\/p>\n Now add<\/p>\n to your .bashrc, .profile or whatever and re-login. If the agents linger (i. e. aren’t restarted), add\u00a0the following entry\u00a0in \/etc\/systemd\/logind.conf:<\/p>\n and restart systemd-logind.\u00a0This kills all processes started on login, including kdeinit4 and stuff. Warning: This may kill your current X-Session!<\/strong><\/p>\n Now you have to ssh-add your key every time you log out, but you don’t have to kill all the KDE-cruft any more. There always is a tradeoff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Creating a config snippet with localectl doesn’t work, but lo and behold, there’s a workaround. Just add<\/p>\n to \/usr\/share\/sddm\/scripts\/Xsetup<\/p>\n To change the X-Server layout, create a xorg.conf that does it right.<\/p>\n Well, that’s a problem. Most KDE-Apps remember their position, even their screen, but chromium does not. The closest thing to get it right:<\/p>\n This restores the last session without telling you that chromium crashed. Unfortunately, all windows appear on the current desktop, so you have to move them manually. AFAICT they keep their position, so defining keyboard shortcuts to move windows to another desktop, e. g. Meta-2 for desktop 2, makes this\u00a0easy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to start {gpg,ssh}-agent with systemd To get rid of the convoluted and error prone start_agent function in .bashrc, just start ssh-agent and gpg-agent as user service with systemd. A big, fat warning before: Don’t even try to use gpg-agent as a replacement for ssh-agent! It’s so buggy that it won’t work! To start the … Continue reading Agents, systemd and More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,77],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop","category-linux","tag-sddm","tag-systemd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[Unit]\r\nDescription=GnuPG private key agent\r\nIgnoreOnIsolate=true\r\n\r\n[Service]\r\nType=forking\r\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/gpg-agent --daemon\r\nRestart=on-abort\r\n\r\n[Install]\r\nWantedBy=default.target<\/pre>\n
[Unit]\r\nDescription=SSH key agent\r\n\r\n[Service]\r\nType=forking\r\nEnvironment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t\/ssh-agent.socket\r\nExecStart=\/usr\/bin\/ssh-agent -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK\r\n\r\n[Install]\r\nWantedBy=default.target<\/pre>\n
$ systemctl --user enable gpg-agent.service\r\n$ systemctl --user enable ssh-agent.service<\/pre>\n
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=\"${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}\/ssh-agent.socket\"<\/pre>\nKillUserProcesses=yes<\/pre>\n
SDDM and keyboard layouts<\/h3>\n
setxkbmap de,us nodeadkeys<\/pre>\n
Restore KDE-Session<\/h3>\n
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chromium --disable-session-crashed-bubble --restore-last-session<\/pre>\n