I can't get past gnome-keyring unless I'm in a desktop

[mark-hahn]

When I have no desktop running and I do apm starred or apm publish it asks for the token over and over and the publish doesn't work (starred does). In the desktop I get a pop-up asking for the keyring password and then it works.

I've tried setting ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN with no luck. I've also tried setting the keyring password to blank.

Is there any way to tell apm to just not use the keyring at all and store the token itself? Using ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN would also be fine if it worked.

[thomasjo]

Is the gnome-keyring daemon running?

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Please provide some more context and/or details next time. Since I came here directly from the discussion on Discuss I know the details about this running on a Chromebook etc, but hardly anyone else would have that context. Makes it easier for people to help out 😄

[mark-hahn]

sorry, I'm usually better at this.

There is no daemon running. Googling gnome-keyring-daemon gave instructions way over my head. Can't I just use something like ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN?

[thomasjo]

Judging from the relevant source code, it does look like that should work regardless of gnome-keyring. How did you set ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN?

[mark-hahn]

I did ...

ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN="abcdefgh..."
apm starred

I sure hope I'm not doing some really stupid linux-newbie thing.

[mark-hahn]

Damn. It was a newbie thing. Adding export ATOM_ACCESS_TOKEN fixed it. Now I need to study up on what export means.

I'm truly sorry for the trouble.

[thomasjo]

Glad it got sorted!

export makes a variable available to child processes. See http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-export.