Divan Santana <di...@santanas.co.za> writes: >> Chris contributed an article showing a neat hack to get ssh-agent >> running on GNOME in lieu of GNOME Keyring’s custom implementation: >> >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/customize-guixsd-use-stock-ssh-agent-everywhere/ >> >> Enjoy! And thanks Chris! > > Thanks very much Chris. This is really appreciated. > > Super useful and just what I was looking for. > > These sort of articles are great for new comers like me. > > Only... I can't get it to work. lol > > When I place this file in my home: > > ~/ ᐅ ll .xsession > -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin users 91 May 28 21:12 .xsession > ~/ ᐅ cat .xsession > #!/run/current-system/profile/bin/bash > > # start ssh-agent system wide. > exec ssh-agent "$@" > > The login crashes from slim. > > How do I debug it? > > slim.log contains nothing useful. Also don't see anything in xorg log. > > Removing the file, I can login again. > > Bit puzzled.
OK so I figured out what was the issue. I had to install the packages system wide. Perhaps some i3 or x related packages? Most of my packages were only installed in my user profile. Speaking of which, are there tips/advise on advantages/disadvantages of installing certain packages system wide vs in a user profile? Or multiple user profiles. -- Divan
