Every now and then, when I start an application (Steam seems to often trigger this), I then get a pop from KWallet saying that kded5 requested to open the wallet, could I please enter my password. This popup contains very little useful information, since kded5 is doing many different things. So all I know is *something* wants to access all my passwords. What are my options? - I can hit "cancel". In that case, the password prompt will just open again. I have hit "escape" for more than a minute to see if it ever gives up; it looks like the computer has more patience than I do. - Or I can enter my password, and just hope that this request is legitimate. This is not a great user experience for two reasons: - There is not enough information presented to make a meaningful choice. - There is no way to even make a choice, since when I want to say "no", KDE simply ignores that and just asks again until I give in and say "yes". Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.0-6-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1505M v5 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31,2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics P530
Indeed. :/ Cannot reproduce the "infinite asking again" behavior though. That seems like it might be a client bug in Steam.
So is Steam able to access the KDE wallet? I wasn't able to find information about this, and I'd prefer it it did not access my wallet... Usually when an application accesses the wallet, it shows the application name and I can say "deny forever". So the fact that kded5 is listed here makes me wonder if this is truly Steam doing this, or if launching steam triggers... something... that triggers kded5 into doing something.
Another situation where such a "kded5" wallet prompt appears is when I shut down a VM in virt-manager. So I suspect it has something to do with network devices changing?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 451039 ***