brave: bypass libsecret with --password-store=basic#144
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Brave's first launch always prompted for the GNOME keyring password because Chromium's default password store goes through libsecret. With the autologin-based Stoa Greeter there's no PAM login to feed the keyring, so the prompt never went away. Fix: pass --password-store=basic everywhere Brave is launched — both the Super+B keybind in hyprland.conf and a local brave-browser.desktop override written by install.sh. The override shadows the system desktop file in rofi drun, mimeapps default-handler resolution, and xdg-open, and is rewritten on every install.sh run so a Brave package upgrade can't silently reintroduce the prompt. This is the universal fix that works regardless of which greeter (stoa-greeter or stoa-greetd) is enabled.
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Brave's first launch always prompted for the GNOME keyring password because Chromium's default password store goes through libsecret. With the autologin-based Stoa Greeter there's no PAM login to feed the keyring, so the prompt never went away.
Fix: pass --password-store=basic everywhere Brave is launched — both the Super+B keybind in hyprland.conf and a local brave-browser.desktop override written by install.sh. The override shadows the system desktop file in rofi drun, mimeapps default-handler resolution, and xdg-open, and is rewritten on every install.sh run so a Brave package upgrade can't silently reintroduce the prompt.
This is the universal fix that works regardless of which greeter (stoa-greeter or stoa-greetd) is enabled.