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

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Mon Mar 31 16:14:21 EDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:41:45PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 14:50 , David Roundy 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?

They don't allow me to start a new agent if there isn't an existing agent
running.  Maybe this doesn't matter.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University


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