My #guix friends, in Debian if I log in to a gnome session it runs the ssh-agent program and I only ever have to unlock my ssh key once...
in guix I have to enter the passphrase every time. How do I get ssh-agent working/running on my guix login?
Daniel Lakeland
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2026-04-12 03:17:33 UTC
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