[Geany-Users] FTP Login and Password Not saving 'forever'

[Lee Quinlan]

Thank you Matthew & Lex.

I have installed gnome-keyring and seahorse. The ftp password is now
"remembered forever" i.e.  persists after reboot.
Thanks very much for your help.

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 00:57, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:50, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-04-22 3:14 p.m., Lee Quinlan wrote:
> > > Hello Lex,
> > >
> > > Thanks for getting back to me.
> > > I've attached some screenshots, in order, to illustrate where I'm
> seeing
> > > this option. Hopefully you can shed some light on it for me. It
> > > certainly feels like a Geany interface.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Lee,
> >
> > The screenshots except for the first one are showing GtkFileChooser[0]
> > which is provided by GTK+. You'll find this same dialog in any
> > applications that use GTK+ and allow you to open files. None of the
> > browsing/mounting/networking stuff in there is done by Geany itself.
> >
> > If your password isn't getting saved, it's probably an issue with your
> > keyring. I don't know Rpi stuff, but in GNOME (and probably other DEs
> > that use gnome-keyring[1]), there's an application that manages your
> > keyring, here it's called Seahorse[2] (aka "Passwords and Keys"). It's
> > possible that you don't have a default keyring setup or something.
>
> Lee,
>
> Thanks for the screen shots, just to add to Matthews reply.
>
> Did you unlock the keyring when you logged in, I had messages about
> that at one time, its supposed to happen automatically, but sometimes
> it fails.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthew Brush
> >
> >
> > [0]: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFileChooser.html
> > [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring
> > [2]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Lee
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 00:06, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 06:59, Lee Quinlan <lquinlan2706 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm trying to make use of the radio button that suggests geany will
> > >> 'remember forever' the logon/passwd details I supply when I logon to
> my
> > >> remote ftp server to access and edit my files.
> > >>> The login is successful and everything works fine but the details are
> > >> not 'remembered forever' and are lost after system reboot.
> > >>> Is there a config folder/file permission issue here somewhere? Any
> help
> > >> greatly appreciated.
> > >>> I'm using geany 1.33 (built on or after 2018-04-16) on a pi4 running
> > >> rasbian buster.
> > >>
> > >> Neither Geany nor any plugins in the geany-plugins provides such a
> > >> dialog so can't really help you.  The dialog must be from some system
> > >> capability, perhaps some FUSE filesystem?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers
> > >> Lex
> > >>
> > >>
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