How to Use gnome-keyring Without Gnome

by mrchris on January 30th, 2011

Recently, I set up my lappy with Debian and awesome as the standalone window manager. I am partial to using network-manager but quickly realized that it relied on the gnome keyring manager to save wifi passwords. Without it, I would have to enter my password on every login.

I found the solution here. Start nm-applet like this in your .xinitrc file or your window manager’s respective startup configuration file.