wish: gnome-keyring example

[markstos]

I tried to get gnome-keyring as a systemd service with Sway and could not. I believe it was due to making sure that gnome-keyring got launched early and got the environment variable it produces properly exported to other apps.

Eventually I got gnome-keyring working with Ly, but not as a systemd service:

fairyglade/ly#228 (comment)

Shipping a working gnome-keyring intetegration for Sway using systemd would be a helpful reference for how to do it properly.

[markstos]

I eventually solved this by switching to console login-- so not using a login manager. Then I could set up gnome-keyring-daemon and related environment variables using my shell. In my case, Fish.

❯ cat .config/fish/conf.d/999-sway.fish
# If running from tty1 and a graphical session has not already been started, start Sway
set TTY1 (tty)
if status --is-login && test "$TTY1" = "/dev/tty1"  && test -z "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY"


  # gnome-keyring prints bash-style env vars when starting, namely SSH_AUTH_SOCK
  gnome-keyring-daemon --start | read --line gnome_keyring_control ssh_auth_sock
  set -Ux GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL (string split -m 1 = $gnome_keyring_control)[2]
  set -Ux SSH_AUTH_SOCK (string split -m 1 = $ssh_auth_sock)[2]
  set --global --export DESKTOP_SESSION "sway"
  set --global --export TERMINAL "foot"
  set --global --export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING 1
  set --global --export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR 1
  set --global --export QT_QPA_PLATFORM wayland
  set --global --export QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION 1
  set --global --export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND 1
  set --global --export MOZ_WEBRENDER 1
  set --global --export MOZ_ACCELERATED 1
  set --global --export BEMENU_BACKEND wayland
  set --global --export GTK_THEME "Adwaita:dark"

  # XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is used by flameshot and maybe others
  set --global --export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP "sway"

  # DON'T use exec so that environment variable inheritance works correctly.
  # We name this script with the 999 prefix because the sway execution blocks and no other scripts
  # will run until after it exits.
  /sbin/sway
end