During the last month, after the umpteenth Plasma crash, I’m gradually switching to xmonad
The hardest part of the switch has been changing my behaviour from floating to a tiling window system. But also missing my configurations and tools is becoming a problem.
In KDE, I had kwallet to store my password, and with a couple of clicks I had chrome configured to use it to keep the passwords; how do I do the same on xmonad?
I’ve discovered that chrome supports kwallet out of the box; you need to use the --password-store=kwallet command line flag, but how do I tell chrome to always run with that flag?
Solution
On Archlinux the google-chrome package’s script contains the following lines:
> $ cat $(which google-chrome)
#!/bin/bash
# Allow users to override command-line options
if [[ -f ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf ]]; then
CHROME_USER_FLAGS="$(cat ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf)"
fi
# Launch
exec /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome $CHROME_USER_FLAGS "$@"%
as you can see, the script loads the CHROME_USER_FLAG from the ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf file, so all we need to do is edit that file and add the following option to it:
--password-store=kwallet
At the next startup, you will have chrome asking for kwallet config/password.