I have installed Leap16 in a standard mode with an install USB thumbdrive. I also installed Chromium.
When chromium starts I have to put in my password, I get a message “Authentication required” . This only happens the first time chromium is opened. When it opens I get the message “Your preferences cannot be read, some features may be unavailable, changes to your preferences may not be saved”. This latter message occurs each time Chromium is opened. I cannot save any changes to the default settings.
I have re-installed Chromium with the same result. What have I done wrong?
I’ve looked at Google on the web and found some pointers to the problem. I deleted the chromium directory in the /home .config directory and the "saving profiles "
problem has gone after a restart. However, I still have to enter my password before Chromium will start, so a partial success. At least I can now save a profile.
The message on the enter password box is:- " Your keyring did not get unlocked when you logged in to your computer". After logging in to chromium once, with the password, it does not need the password on subsequent login.
After selecting Leap16 on the login menu the machine boots.
The login screen appears
I enter my login name.
I enter my user password. (The root password does not work.)
The desktop starts up after a few seconds.
When I then start chromium I get the “Your keyring did not get unlocked …” message.
I enter my user password and chromium starts.
NOTE. If I click on “cancel” three times, when the login message appears, chromium starts anyway?
I’m not sure. It’s the default. There is no “about” window or anything on the title bar, only the word “greeter”.
I would like to use Light DM but its not obvious how to change and there is some suggestion that I need the default, at least for now, given the development state of wayland and XFCE.
Well, to answer your original question - what you see is entirely normal. Chromium by default needs access to a secret storage and unless this secret storage is unlocked on login you need to do it when Chromium starts. I do exactly the same and it does not really bother me.
If you want to avoid this prompt you need to find out how to unlock your secret storage on login (you never mentioned what you use) and then how to configure your display manager to do it. Maybe someone here knows and can explain it; I personally switched to the lightdm due to visual artefacts in Wayland greeter/Xfce.