Package: desktop-base
Version: 12.0.6+nmu1~deb12u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian.mournful...@passmail.net
If Konsole is started using krunner ssh-agent works. If Konsole is started
sing a shortcut ssh-agent is broken. This seems to be due to the way the
plasma session is initialised, and it's broken on Debian while Fedora ships
a workaround (voluntary or otherwise).
Steps to reproduce:
- Run Konsole from the application menu
- Run `ssh-agent -l`, see 'The agent has no identities.'
- Open System Settings > Shortcuts > Add Application > Konsole
- Choose a shortcut, apply, then launch Konsole using that shortcut
- Run `ssh-agent -l`, now it throws the error:
'Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.'
I found someone on stackoverflow lamenting the same behaviour:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771404/launching-via-plasma-shortcut-removes-ssh-agents-environment-variables
It was confirmed on KDE's bug tracker:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483541
Quoting Nicolas Fella from the bug report:
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What seem to be happening is this:
When launching apps via global shortcuts they are launched from kwin_wayland
whereas when they are launched from the app launcher/krunner the launching
process is plasmashell/krunner.
When SSH_AUTH_SOCK is populated after kwin_wayland is started it will not be in
kwin's environment, so it doesn't propagate to apps launched by kwin.
Fedora ships a file /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/ssh-agent.sh that causes
SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be set before kwin starts, so for me on Fedora it works fine.
However on Neon there's no such file so SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set that way and
only later set by something else
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It would be nice if Debian had the same workaround
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-26-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages desktop-base depends on:
ii fonts-quicksand 0.2016-2.1
ii librsvg2-common 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1
Versions of packages desktop-base recommends:
ii plymouth-label 22.02.122-3
Versions of packages desktop-base suggests:
ii kde-standard 5:142
ii xfce4 4.18
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