Solved Can login keyring request be eliminated?

McClamrock

Years after people started complaining about Vivaldi for Linux requesting a login keyring shortly after you start up, it's still doing it. This is quite a minor inconvenience--you either enter your password or else click "Cancel" 3 times and the pop-up goes away--but it would be nice if it didn't happen. I like Vivaldi better than Firefox, but Firefox for Linux doesn't demand a login keyring. Surely the developers can figure out how to make Vivaldi not do it either?

ugly

@mcclamrock

If you are not using Vivaldi to store passwords, then you can delete the keyring. I use an external password manager, so this solution is fine for me.

Do not do this if you are storing passwords in Vivaldi, or else you will lose them.

Open a terminal and enter:

rm -v ~/.local/share/keyrings/*.keyring

The next time you start Vivaldi, you will get the prompt for the keyring. Leave it blank and click 'continue'. After that it shouldn't be a problem again.

npro

@mcclamrock said in Can login keyring request be eliminated?:

you either enter your password or else click "Cancel" 3 times and the pop-up goes away

nope.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login

DoctorG

@mcclamrock Keyring password must be the same as Linux account, then the keyring is unlocked automatically, i checked this on GNOME and KWallet keyring.
But if you use autologin for your Linux user, the unlock will fail.

ugly

@mcclamrock

If you are not using Vivaldi to store passwords, then you can delete the keyring. I use an external password manager, so this solution is fine for me.

Do not do this if you are storing passwords in Vivaldi, or else you will lose them.

Open a terminal and enter:

rm -v ~/.local/share/keyrings/*.keyring

The next time you start Vivaldi, you will get the prompt for the keyring. Leave it blank and click 'continue'. After that it shouldn't be a problem again.

McClamrock

@ugly said in Can login keyring request be eliminated?:

@mcclamrock

Open a terminal and enter:
rm -v ~/.local/share/keyrings/*.keyring
The next time you start Vivaldi, you will get the prompt for the keyring. Leave it blank and click 'continue'. After that it shouldn't be a problem again.

It works! (I actually just identified and renamed the keyring file, equivalent to deleting the file with the "keyring" name, with the XFCE graphical file manager rather than the command line.) Thanks!!

npro

@ugly said in Can login keyring request be eliminated?:

it shouldn't be a problem again.

along with not being able to save passwords and access already saved passwords inside Vivaldi anymore, and having to search for them in unencrypted form somewhere outside, true.

ugly

@npro said in Can login keyring request be eliminated?:

@ugly said in Can login keyring request be eliminated?:

it shouldn't be a problem again.

along with not being able to save passwords and access already saved passwords inside Vivaldi anymore, and having to search for them in unencrypted form somewhere outside, true.

Good point. I use an external password manager, so it is not an issue for me. But could be for someone else. I edited my post to include a warning.