[xmonad] darcs patch: add SshAgent module, to start ssh-agent when needed.

Jamie Webb j at jwebb.sygneca.com
Sun Mar 30 09:35:00 EDT 2008


On 2008-03-29 12:55:15 David Roundy wrote:
> I'm sending this rather than pushing, since we're close to a
> release.  It's a new module to automatically start an ssh-agent, if
> one isn't running.  I expect to find it useful.  The reason for this
> is that the ordinary mechanism for starting a single ssh-agent for an
> X session doesn't seem to be working for me.  And starting xmonad
> with `ssh-agent xmonad` does no good, because the ssh-agent exits as
> soon as I restart xmonad.

My .xsession has

  eval `ssh-agent`

before it starts xmonad, and it seems to work fine. Does this not work
for you?

/J


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