Re: Is there any way to kill a seahorse?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Bruce Korb <bkorb gnu org>:
> I didn't ask for it and there is no plainly obvious way.
> That is a crummy way to treat your customers.
> I am looking for a clean, big, bright button saying, "DISABLE"
> and it is not to be found.

Because disabling the key ring management makes no sense.

> I am sure you have no idea
> about how appallingly awful I consider an unstoppable intrusive
> interface to be.  I do not want anything to pop up and disable
> my desktop until I've typed in a password.  That is what login
> is all about.  I always configure my ssh targets to accept my
> varying public keys, so once I'm logged in I have no need to
> type passwords again, except for this horrid little Gnomey thingy
> that seizes my desktop until I've dismissed it.  Please be kind
> enough to do two things:

It asks you to unlock your keyring / passphrase.  The simplest  
solution is to let it do that.  You have to enter it sooner or later  
anyway.

> There's supposed to be a list of apps to start at Gnome startup,
> but search as I might through ~/.local and ~/.gnome2, I sure cannot
> find anything resembling any of startup, keyring (other than
> ~/.gnome2/keyring) or seahorse that I can configure to gone.

Unlocking your keyring should be integrated via PAM when you login via  
the display manager.  It should open the "login" keyring using your  
login password.

> Please do not tell me that all will be better with Gnome3.

Using GNOME3 right now, it rocks.  And used the keyring, and Seahorse,  
under GNOME2;  it worked great there too.

> P.S. I also asked for an install without games.  Guess what?
> As part of the Gnome ecosystem, you-all need to understand
> that "no games" is yet another example of ignoring your customers'
> desires.  Not good.

That is really an issue for your distribution.