MxLinux with i3 and Obsidian Secret Storage

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Hi.

I’m running Obsidian (flatpak, version 1.12.7) under MxLinux.

Under XFCE everything’s fine but under i3 Obidian is complaining about missing keyring (or similar). I’ve checked and gnome-keyring-daemon is running after boot.

Since I don’t want to store my secrets without cryptography, I’m using Obsidian only under XFCE. But this is not the best way to work (switching between i3 and XFCE).

What can I do to fix this error?

Thanks in advance!

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This is an Electron issue. Obsidian uses Electron Secret Storage, which discovers system secret backend for Gnome and KDE only, it doesn’t care about whether gnome-keyring-daemon is running or is in XDG portal. Issue: Linux: Use Secret Service API in DBus to attempt to autodiscover secret provider · Issue #47436 · electron/electron · GitHub.

Auto discovery is improved in Electron 42, but unfortunately Obsidian still uses 39 (which is de facto in “end of life” according to Electron team, I hope Obsidian team can update it soon).

If you can self-package Obsidian (definitely Flatpak isn’t designed for this), you can try to add --password-store=gnome-libsecret to the Electron that loads Obsidian’s app.asar.

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Thanks a lot. Unfortunately I’ll have to wait for an Obsidian’s update, since I’m not able to self-package the app.

But this mean that the same problem arise in XFCE? There are no error or “alarm” under XFCE…

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Sorry, I didn’t explain well in my previous response. My for Gnome and KDE only meant for Gnome-like and KDE-like environment. In Electron repo docs, desktop environments that will be identified as gnome-keyring available are X-Cinnamon, Deepin, GNOME, Pantheon, XFCE, UKUI, and unity. This explains why XFCE works but not i3.

And I found a hacky workaround that may address this issue: [Bug]: Safestorage detection fails on linux outside of predefined desktop environments · Issue #39789 · electron/electron · GitHub. It works by setting GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID.

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Thanks a lot. I’ll read better your link wen I’ll be at home with some free tme to dedicate to this matter.

Thanks a lot for your help!