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Up until recently the following solution worked well:

How to disable the keyring for SSH and GPG?

But just a few days ago the solution stopped working for SSH. I now get a GUI prompt for my SSH password and it keeps the key unlocked until I close the terminal session.

I had read some suggestions regarding changing the permissions for the keyring executable so that it can't be executed, and while that works, I won't get a password prompt for wifi networks :P So I opted to reverse that.

Is there anything I can be doing to tackle this particular issue?

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I had the same problem, and have only just taken the time to fix it.

I fully documented this in my install procedure here:

https://github.com/mattcaron/misc_notes/blob/master/install.xubuntu.14.04

See item 36.

However, the crux of it is twofold:

  1. You need to have the default gnome-keyring-daemon not start all the components, so I create a wrapper such that gnome-keyring-daemon is now gnome-keyring-daemon-wrapped, and the new gnome-keyring-daemon does:

    #!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon-wrapped --components=pkcs11,secrets,gpg "$@

  2. You also need to edit ~/.config/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop and add the following:

    [Desktop Entry]
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

After that, it seems to behave itself properly.

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  • It seems that adding the line X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false to the file ~/.config/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop is sufficient for me. – Julien Fastré Apr 10 '15 at 20:36