https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380311
Bug ID: 380311
Summary: No way to launch ssh-agent with interactivity under
Wayland
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.9.5
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: generic-wayland
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: hec...@marcansoft.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
AIUI, the supported method for launching background daemons that also set
environment variables under Plasma is ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/*.sh.
Under X11, the $DISPLAY environment variable exists when these scripts are
sourced. However, under Wayland, these scripts are sourced before the
compositor is started and $WAYLAND_DISPLAY does not exist. This makes it
impossible to launch ssh-agent and use it interactively, e.g. with
SSH_ASKPASS=ksshaskpass because ksshaskpass has no idea what display to start
in.
I suspect the env scripts ought to be sourced from /usr/lib/startplasma (after
kwin_wayland starts), not /usr/bin/startplasmacompositor. Or perhaps there
should be two config directories, one for pre-compositor scripts and one for
post-compositor scripts.
Ugly workarounds are possible, of course (e.g. an autostart script that dumps
the required variables somewhere, and an sshaskpass wrapper that pulls them
in), but there should clearly be a better way.
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