Opening some programs in KDE also causes the KDE wallet popup window to appear.
Indeed when I close Vivaldi browser it opens once more.
I have found that the programs which open the KDE wallet dialogue are: Vivaldi browser; Google Chrome browser; and Choqok micro blogger.
I wanted to find the method to prevent the opening of the KDE wallet popup dialogue window. I began by searching on the internet for ideas. However, I finally found the answer in the system settings.
Having clicked to open the programs the KDE wallet dialogue window opens.
The kwalletrc file
I found reference to the kwalletrc file.
The dialogue being controlled in the file
.kde/share/config/kwalletrc
Edits may be done either from the command line or by using an editor such as Kate.
Open the Dolphin file browser. This is in a hidden directory. To show it hold down the <alt> key and press the full stop. You can now navigate to the directory .kde/share/config.
Once there open the file kwalletrc for editing.
I chose to edit the file from the command line.
Sample contents of the file:
[$Version] update_info=kwallet-4.13.upd:kde4.13 [Wallet] Close When Idle=false Close on Screensaver=false Default Wallet=kdewallet Enabled=false First Use=false Idle Timeout=10 Launch Manager=false Leave Manager Open=false Leave Open=false Prompt on Open=false Use One Wallet=true
To the above add a [Auto Deny] section with the programs which you wish to disable the use of KDEWallet. For example:
[Auto Deny] kdewallet=Vivaldi kdewallet=Choqok
The service will need restarting for the configuration file to be re-read. Its easier to do this from the command line.
To find the KDE wallet process(s):
ps -A | grep wall 3683 ? 00:00:00 kwalletd5 10228 ? 00:00:01 kwalletd5
Therefore to restart the service use:
killall -9 kwalletd5
Alternatively logging out and back in again will ensure that the service is restarted.
But, I found that this hadn’t corrected my issue.
I decided to look to see if there was another configuration file. I found
.config/kwalletrc
which had the following content:
[Migration] alreadyMigrated=true [Wallet] First Use=false
I added the lines previously added, giving:
[Migration] alreadyMigrated=true [Wallet] First Use=false [Auto Deny] kdewallet=Chromium kdewallet=Vivaldi kdewallet=Choqok
I restarted the kwallet service as previously
I had still failed to stop the popups.
System Settings
Really simple, I found reference to KDE wallet in system settings.
Open system settings, account settings and then disable the KDE wallet system.
In the image above see checkbox – Enable the KDE wallet subsystem
I unticked the checkbox and this popup was shown
I entered my user password, NOT root.
I tried opening the programs again (Vivaldi and Chrome), with the same kwallet pop-up on opening and closing.
Left for further consideration. And did consider that maybe all will be resolved following either a restart of logout/login.
When I next started the computer and tried opening these browsers no kwallet.
The opening of the kwalletrc dialogue box when opening some programs had been resolved.
