Credential store is not supported

[ryan-carpenter]

JabRef version

5.13 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma Wayland

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. File > Preferences > Web search > Custom API key table
2. Custom API key shows "No content in table" and no means of adding or enabling a key. I believe that I previously had a custom key saved prior to JabRef version 5.13.
3. Event log shows "Credential store is not supported"
4. Start JabRef from the terminal for more info (see warnings in the appendix)

Appendix

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Log File

2024-05-15 23:51:31 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getFetcherKeysFromKeyring()
WARN: JabRef could not open the key store
2024-05-15 23:52:18 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.logic.util.OS.isKeyringAvailable()
WARN: Credential store not supported.

[koppor]

openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Plasma Wayland

Is there any special procedure to install that setup - or does one "just" need to install openSUSE Tumbleweed?

Do you have an app for keyring security installed? e..g Something like Kwallet?

[koppor]

Implementation "trace":

• https://github.com/purejava/kdewallet is the app
• We use java-keyring
• java-keyring uses secret service. Does that communicate using kdewallet?

Possible follow ups:

• If kdewallet is not supported, add support to java-keyring
• If kdewallet is supported, ask @ryan-carpenter about the specifics of the setup.

[Siedlerchr]

Gnome-keyring would be an alternative

[koppor]

Interesting development tooling: https://github.com/purplesyringa/docker-boot