I use the i3wm
window manager on Fedora, and the urxvt-mld
terminal dæmon for my multipl urxvt-mlc
terminal clients.
My problem is that I want just one ssh-agent
for my entire session, and for the ssh-agent
to be available to all of the terminal windows, which would most easily be done with
ssh-agent urxvt-mld
However, I can't figure out where to put that because of all the various files involved in X session and window manager startup.
Should it go in the i3
config file, read upon i3wm
's startup? The problem I anticipate there is that restarting the window manager might close all the terminals. (Or might not, if the agent process is detached from the i3
process tree..)
I don't mind issuing one ssh-add
command per session, but I'd like to be able to do it from any of the terminal windows. Hence the desire to make them all children of a process that ran ssh-agent
.
Would a systemd
user service be appropriate? What would the wants
and requires
be for that to get it to happen at the right time?
Thanks for any help!