I need help to understand how keyrings are managed on Gnome.
Some apps (Vivaldi browser and ProtonVPN for example) prompt me to create “Default” keyrings after each login, which makes no sense to me, and is really annoying: in order to start using my laptop I have to type at least 5 passwords…
Here’s the exact behavior:
- after logging in with my user password, if I try to open Vivaldi I get a prompt that ask to set a password for a new keyring named “Default”; however in this case if I just click “Cancel” and click again on Vivaldi it opens normally and I’m still logged in to my web accounts;
- if I try to launch ProtonVPN I get asked the same thing:
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… but in this case I can’t “cancel”, that just reloads the prompt three times and then the app shuts down. And, “creating” the keyring has no effect on the next login, the same thing happens again then, I have to 1- enter twice a password and 2- log in as if for the firt time using my Proton credentials.
I have tried figuring this all out with Seahorse, but to be honnest I really don’t understand how it works, or is supposed to work… I have loads of redundant keyrings:
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(here I just cleaned up, but last time I had something like ten “Default” and ten “Default keyring” keyrings…) and trying to ask Seahorse to unlock them all when I’m logged in has no effect.
Please help!