Seahorse Delema
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 15:11:35 UTC 2009
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Fred Roller wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:05 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> I was really pissed when some stupid software asked me to provide the
> password for a Key Ring so I could start my computer! It got worse when
> there were two Key Rings that needed passwords! That was when a kind
> person on this list suggested Wicd.
>
> Now All my computers are using Wicd to start. As a fact to this date I
> attest that Wicd is simply worlds better than Network-Manager. It is
> faster and far less trouble.
>
> Back to Seahorse. I can only start seahorse from a Terminal. I have
> never seen it on Applications or System or places. Not at all sure where
> to look on KDE. I have a KDE 8.10 and may look for seahorse.
>
> But then came Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and I was able to just get a
> good free version from the Ubuntu repositories done by the GNU. Then I
> was at a qwandry because I didn't know how it worked. I was directed to
> some EXCELLENT PDF books I d/l and read.
>
> One said to get on seahorse and view your Key Rings. I was about to be
> sick, but when I did start seahorse it was perfect. It showed me my
> system Key Rings and all the Public Key Rings I have collected. This is
> what Seahorse was written for! It is great for PGP.
>
> I will keep looking for a tab that loads Seahorse. I have learned to use:
>
> $ seahorse &
>
> because this lets me have the Terminal back...
>
>
> 73 Karl
>
>>
> Karl,
> Have you tried to right click the Ubuntu icon (upper right in gnome)
> and select "Edit Menus". This should give you what you need to add
> Seahorse to your menu your self.
I tried. Seahorse was not on the list of things to put on the border
with the other stuff, but there was a place to write the name of a
application so I wrote seahorse, and nothing happened. Alas I will just
have to use the terminal.
73 Karl
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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