/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-* files contain this line:

  OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;

which I believe is meant to indicate that those are relevant to start
only in those environments.

I use Awesome where to the best of my knowledge they work just fine.
But please don't whitelist Awesome specifically (which wouldn't help me
anyway because I use choosewm to select at login between Awesome, Sugar
and XFCE).  Instead please flip to blacklisting KDE which I suspect was
really the purpose (since that environment uses its own key manager):

  NotShowIn=KDE;


Thanks for considering,

 - Jonas
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