On 31/03/2008, David Roundy
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:47:46PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
Jamie's approach isn't truly general: if anything happens to that ssh-agent, then you're up the creek without a paddle.
Little bit OT, but did this *ever* happen to you?
I don't know. I do know that the last time I started X, I had
ssh-agent xmonad
in my .vncrc/xstartup which had the result that when xmonad restarted, the ssh-agent disappeared. The SshAgent module allows me to rectify the situation without restarting my vncserver.
I really fail to see what this has to do with a window manager. As has been pointed out: eval $(ssh-agent -s) Really is an adequate solution, and has worked for me for years. Why it doesn't work for you, I don't know, although polluting xmonad with it seems wrong to me. -- Thomas Adam