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

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon Mar 31 15:41:45 EDT 2008


On Mar 31, 2008, at 14:50 , David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:44:00PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH  
> wrote:
>> I'm still confused as to the problem you are solving with this.
>
> I just want to have an ssh-agent running in xmonad.  The ssh agent  
> needs to
> be able to define environment variables in xmonad's environment, if  
> it's to
> be visible to new terminals that are brought up.  This module  
> allows me to
> start up an ssh-agent in this way.  It also allows me to start a  
> new agent
> if there isn't an existing agent running, or if I'm forced to start  
> xmonad
> from the command line because xmonad crashed.

And how do the other suggestions not help with this?

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH




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