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May 19, 2026 at 4:16 pm #204954
kempelen
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    Solved this

    1. Some programs need parameter to choose between “kwallet” and “gnome-keyring”.

    
brave-browser --password-store=gnome-libsecret

    To solve that I made a BASH alias for this command. And copied the .desktop file to my ~/.local/share/applications/ and added the parameter to all Exec= lines. Element uses the same parameter.

    2. When two gnome-keyring-daemon instances are running, some programs cannot choose

    To “solve” that I removed the libpam-gnome-keyring package. Purpose of this was to automatically open the keyring.

    That would work as:
    – You have a “Login” keyring, that has same password as login password, and contains only the password entry to “Default keyring”
    – You have all data in “Default keyring” but don’t need to enter any passwords

    So now I need to enter “Default keyring” password when a program needs the data, but that’s OK.

    For some reason ProtonMail Bridge perfectly used the two daemons, other programs (Brave, SeaHorse) do not work with that at all. There is a suspicion that the –login instance that is started by SlimSki via PAM modules starts earlier than D-Bus and then hangs everything. But I cannot fully confirm that, because ProtonMail Bridge worked with that PAM system opened keyring perfectly and automatically (i.e. no password asked).