ssh-askpass is an X11 application for passing a user’s SSH Key passphrase to ssh-add ssh-add(1). But it only works with X11. And I’m on Wayland now. Solution Yad. Yad is Yet Another Dialog ala Zenity or Dialog. It allows for taking in input and passing it to something else in a similar way to the way ssh-askpass worked with X11. A screenshot This is how my yad-askpass window looks:

Originally published: 2021-11-27. So that I can share how I’ve configured several of my applications and systems on my laptop, I’ve created a new Git project for my dotfiles. Hope you can use them to find a different way to accomplish your goals or, even better, you find a bug or have a suggestion for me. What are dotfiles? “dotfiles” are generally files that being with a period in the filename. By starting a filename with a period character, they are hidden by default from many graphical file managers and the ls(1) command. With ls specifically, you can list “dotfiles” by running ls -a or ls -al.