[Evolution-users] gMail continuous authentication request

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2026-08-10 at 11:29 +0100, Mark Stanton via evolution-users
wrote:
> Thanks for that Milan
> 
> On Mon, 2026-08-10 at 12:08 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > That moves the problem from the Evolution to the gnome-keyring-
> > daemon,
> > which kinda makes sense from your notes.
> 
> The AI opinion is that the initial problem is the KDE keyring (?),
> which it says is not properly linked in to DBus and the freedesktop
> system.  I don't know.
> 
> The solution was to shift to the GNome keyring.  While starting it
> did
> seem to create the sockets properly, it didn't set up environment
> variables properly, so the script does both of those things.
> 
> AI thinks that keyring closes when the computer becomes idle (eg
> overnight).  At the latest I'll know by tomorrow if that's right.  If
> it does happen again I've got some stuff to do to try to clear that.

FYI, I use Evolution on KDE/Plasma (latest stable version on Fedora 44)
and have gnome-keyring-daemon running. IIRC I didn't do anything
special, but I don't see this issue. My keyring password matches my
login password and I keep the system running aside from overnight
hibernation.

poc