On Sunday 19 November 2006 16:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > >I've certainly had problems with kwallet in the past. > >I see from my records that I last met this in January 2006 (was that > > FC-4?) when I wrote: > >------------------------------------- > >Apologies - I was right-clicking on the wallet in the task bar, > >which took me to KDE Wallet Manager, > >which appears to have no password option. > >But when I left click on the icon, > >I get a different window with the same name, > >but with a wallet icon on it. > >When I right-click on this icon, > >I am indeed offered an option to change the password. > > > >I have taken advantage of this to reduce the password to nothing. > >------------------------------------- > > > >I don't know if this is relevant to FC-6, > >as I have had no kwallet problem since then. > > I started it from the kmenu, which brought up the icon adjacent to the > date/time on the taskbar. A right click on that brought up a menu and I > chose configuration. > > checking the enable button unghosted the rest of the options and I chose > to create a pair of .wallet files. And while it went thru the motions, I > don't believe they were created as they didn't show up when selecting the > default wallet for that function. I've just prowled thru the .kde tree > and found a .kde/share/apps/kwallet/kwallet.kwl file, 60 bytes of binary > data, and its dated about 50 hours ago when it last crashed/rebooted the > box. > > There is also a .kde/share/config/kwalletrc, which looks like this: > ------------- > [Wallet] > Close When Idle=false > Close on Screensaver=false > Default Wallet= > Enabled=false > First Use=false > Idle Timeout=10 > Launch Manager=true > Leave Manager Open=false > Leave Open=false > Local Wallet= > Prompt on Open=false > Use One Wallet=false > -------------- For what it is worth, mine says --------------------- [tim@martha ~]$ cat .kde/share/config/kwalletrc [Auto Allow] kdewallet=kmail,kwalletmanager,konqueror [Wallet] Close When Idle=false Close on Screensaver=false Default Wallet=kdewallet Enabled=true First Use=false Idle Timeout=10 Launch Manager=true Leave Manager Open=true Leave Open=false Prompt on Open=true Use One Wallet=true --------------------- However, I've verified that on my FC-6 system, the recipe I gave above seems to work. If I say "kwalletmanager" this brings up a wallet icon in my panel. If I LEFT click on this icon, a window with a wallet icon comes up. If I RIGHT click on THIS icon, I am asked if I want to change my wallet password. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
