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Epp

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Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 101

[SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Here I am again with keyring problems.

I'd say that the protonvpn gui app can not access or read the keyring(file).
For half a year now I get the "Choose password for new keyring" dialog box after each boot on my laptop.
All this time I had my prios elswhere. Now I dive further into it. Problem seems bigger than before I used proton-vpn-gtk-app.

Possible because the keyring has new lines.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=457725
I tried to place all the file content (for one default keyring file) on one line, but it did not solve the problem.

I like the fprint options for my laptop and I don't want to enter a password after each boot for protonvpn.

Can you please help me on my way for an alternative solution?
- I think that fprint at boot does not combine nicely with autoconnnect for protonvpn-gtk-app
Can this be disabled and leaving intact further fprint functions (for the command line for example)?
On my (none fprint) computer/PC there has never been a single autoconnect password error.
Just typing in my password in the TTY after each boot once is waay better than all this keyring mess.

- The password for protonvpn-gtk-app autoconnect through a file or a an other option than gnome-keyring

Simply disabling

auth sufficient pam-fprintd-grosshack.so

Does not work for alternative solution 1.

Simple adding a login.conf with (username and password) file to my xinitrc file folder and an ".ovpn" file with auth-user-pass login.conf to my home path does not work for alternative solution 2.

Last edited by Epp (2026-06-18 11:27:09)

Epp

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Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 101

Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Yes, I am wrong with bumping.
Placing a copy of the first post is also sub optimal I think.

But if I am wrong in my post because of incompleteness, expected lazyness etc. please let me know.

If my question is not very stupid, could you please point me in some direction?

In short.
I would like to autostart protonvpn-gtk-app. But I would also like to keep intact the fprint functions.
The fingerprint login, I could do without. I am not skillful with pam settings. gnome-keyring problems are no fun and (often) appear as an unpleasant surprise.

Last edited by Epp (2026-05-06 13:16:50)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Some questions for clarity :

You are using network manager to manage your connections on the troublesome system ?

Does it help if you disable fprint for testing purposes ?

What DM / DE / WM / wayland compositor are you using ?

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Epp

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Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 101

Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Thank you!
Yes, networkmanager is running
I use DWM (with Xorg).

In case there is a setting for off and on, I did not manage to find it.
My attempt for turning off fprint is not successful. I think it is active caused by different files.
But turning the following off in all the files, did not stop the fprint functionality:

auth      sufficient pam_fprintd.so

LRDP

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Registered: 2025-02-07

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Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Hi, i get the same problem after an update, sometimes. I've tried to solve about the keyring, but nothing works, even with the support of AI. I noticed the bug, maybe last year, and a few months ago, a new attempt ended in failure. So i waited a few days, until an update of proton-vpn-gtk-app appears with pacman, and finally it worked. The last update of May had no update for ProtonVPN and the application is no longer compatible with kernel's update. I'm updating every day, but still no compatibility. Patience ! but it's a pity.

Epp

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Registered: 2022-07-11

Posts: 101

Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Yeah, it feels like the factor luck is really important with this.

I did not notice anything with compatibility, or at least did not bump into info. But I did notice that the window/box for the application can no longer be enlarged. It opens full size, after the boot on my computer(s). After the start it can be made smaller. But after that, the size can not be changed at all. This reasonably sucks, while it's hard to navigate through the content of the main screen this way. Strange fact is that the size of the settings window can be changed.

Luckily I got the "solution" instead of an alternative working. Perhaps "trying things" was part of the problem. But this is what I noticed.
Today for me gnome-keyring keeps quit after the following steps:

Watch out! Better not try this if you are not struggling with only one application for the keyring.
-Close proton-vpn-gtk-app
-Remove all files from ~/.local/share/keyrings (mind the warning).
-Start proton-vpn-gtk-app
-The password box appears for the keyring. Leave this empty!
Notice warning: "Note that the contents of the keyring are stored unencrypted in this case. (copy from arch wiki)"
-Fill in the login credentials for the proton-vpn-gtk-app
-Reboot to check if all is right. To me it happened at least 2 times that after a second second boot the box did reappear.

Last edited by Epp (2026-06-18 11:29:30)

SimonJ

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Registered: 2021-05-11

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Re: [SOLVED] (Alternative) solution proton-vpn-gtk-app and gnome-keyring?

Not exactly a solution, but I switched from gnome-keyring and kwallet to keepassxc, since setting this up no issues with keys, keyrings or scripts.

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