Re: How to store credentials ?

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2026 at 07:23, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 03/10/2026 à 19:49, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> > Am 03.10.26 um 19:30 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> >> Which error do you get -exactly- ?
> >
> > The Property Desktop.Passwords.Enabled return FALSE.
> >
> > Trying to retrieve a password with
> >
> >      Print Desktop.Passwords["claus"]
> >
> > (without having stored any yet) leads to the error message ...
> >
> > "Cannot store passwords on desktop 'CINNAMON' :
> > [gb.desktop]._Desktop_Passwords.OpenWallet.80: desktop is not supported
> > (FMain:13)"
> >
> > Why does it say "cannot store ... " while trying to retrieve a password?
>
> It should say "cannot store and retreive...".
>
> >
> > Why is CINNAMON not supported?
>
> At the moment only KDE and GNOME-like desktops are supported: LXDE,
> MATE, XFCE, UNITY.
>
> How does CINNAMON is supposed to store passwords? Like Gnome, witht the
> 'secret-tool' command line program?
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini.


It's been my experience that Cinnamon is "very" similar to MATE. they are
both offshoots of Gnome2 and a lot of things that work in MATE work in a
similar way on Cinnamon.

For example the DBus Inhibitor
DBus["session://org.gnome.SessionManager"]["/org/gnome/SessionManager",
"org.gnome.SessionManager"].Inhibit(Identity, Application.Id, Reason, Flags)
That'll work on both MATE and Cinnamon but not on others i've tried.

My guess would be whatever works for MATE (secret-tool) would "probably"
also work on Cinnamon

Respects
BruceS