Irradicate Gnome Keyring SSH agent

23/01/2020 - Ted

Why? Because it doesn't work with ed25519 keys and utterly takes over the ability run the real one globally.

Disable gnome keyring starting ssh-agent "support"

Copy the default desktop autostart file to local configuration for user:
cp -piv /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
Edit the file and add X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false to the end of it. It should end up like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=SSH Key Agent
Comment=GNOME Keyring: SSH Agent
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-Notify=true
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-keyring
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.10.1
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-keyring
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

Start normal ssh-agent and export env

Add our own upstart session script which runs the real one.

.. or just let /usr/share/upstart/sessions/ssh-agent.conf run. This hasn't been running up until now because gnome-ssh-agent has been running before it, screwing things up.

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