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Decouple Chrome from Gnome keystore
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Decouple Chrome from the Gnome Shell keystore

A recurring problem with a Gnome desktop machine that is set to automatic login, like an HTPC, is Chrome's out-of-the-box dependence on the desktop environment's keystore. There are a few workarounds.

One is to simply set the Gnome Shell keystore password to blank. Yeah. Not a great idea.

The other is to invoke Chrome with a flag that has it use its own built-in keystore.

$ google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic

To make this the default, it needs to be added to the google-chrome.desktop file under /usr/share/applications:

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --password-store=basic %U

This is done in the first "Exec" directive in the file (there will be at least two following).

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