Yes, I expect that passing from Xfce to Mate by the same home folder so same conf, I get same "safe" behavior of being asked the key by terminal every time I connect.
But that it is not the case. Let me undust the Mate stick to investigate ssh-agent(1) May 15, 2025 23:06:03 Michael Hekeler <mich...@hekeler.com>: > you want to enter your private key passphrase every time you connect > to a remote server using SSH? > Then simply don't use ssh-agent(1).