GNOME keyring breaks SSH agent functionality

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GNOME keyring daemon automatically runs and breaks SSH agent, requiring developers to create wrapper scripts to disable its SSH component as a workaround.

GNOMESSH
Category
compatibility
Workaround
hack
Stage
onboarding
Freshness
persistent
Scope
single_lib
Upstream
stale
Recurring
No
Buyer Type
individual
Maintainer
slow

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Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Linux for developers in 2025?”4/5/2026

It has some weird problems like forcing gnome-keyring-daemon to run which breaks ssh-agent. The only fix I have found to to create a wrapper script that always disables its ssh component.

Created: 4/5/2026Updated: 4/5/2026