If Konsole is started using krunner ssh-agent works. If Konsole is started
sing a shortcut ssh-agent is broken. This seems to be due to the way the
plasma session is initialised, and it's broken on Debian while Fedora ships
a workaround (voluntary or otherwise).
Steps to reproduce:
- Run Konsole from the application menu
- Run `ssh-agent -l`, see 'The agent has no identities.'
- Open System Settings > Shortcuts > Add Application > Konsole
- Choose a shortcut, apply, then launch Konsole using that shortcut
- Run `ssh-agent -l`, now it throws the error:
'Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.'
I found someone on stackoverflow lamenting the same behaviour:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771404/launching-via-plasma-shortcut-removes-ssh-agents-environment-variables
It was confirmed on KDE's bug tracker:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483541
Quoting Nicolas Fella from the bug report:
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What seem to be happening is this:
When launching apps via global shortcuts they are launched from kwin_wayland whereas when they are launched from the app launcher/krunner the launching process is plasmashell/krunner.
When SSH_AUTH_SOCK is populated after kwin_wayland is started it will not be in kwin's environment, so it doesn't propagate to apps launched by kwin.
Fedora ships a file /etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/ssh-agent.sh that causes SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be set before kwin starts, so for me on Fedora it works fine.
However on Neon there's no such file so SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set that way and only later set by something else
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It would be nice if Debian had the same workaround
Thanks!