On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not
> installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude with
> 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says to use seahorse. I can
> install seahorse, but must
I have finally succeeded. It took seven hours to get it working. During
that time I also installed KVM, which I had never heard of before, and
tried to install Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, using the same install media
(ISO file) that I had used to install it on VirtualBox several years
ago. I had also
Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not
installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude with
21.10. I tried the link, but again it says to use seahorse. I can
install seahorse, but must be something else that is causing the
problems. And seahorse is
Ubuntu uses the keyring to store passwords for all kinds of things.
It looks like Xubuntu uses seahorse or gnome-keyring as the keyring
manager. I'm running Kubuntu so it uses KDE Wallet.
Anyway, if you open whichever one Xubuntu uses, there should be either a
"login" or "wallet" password stored.
Such is life with desktop/server these days. It is pretty annoying that the
security zealots who implemented authentication for just about anything
(filesystem, video, sound, usb, applications, etc.) on your system did not
think/care of this.
Anyway, the desktop login dialog unlocks keyring for
