I discovered this in OpenBSD. There, by default, at the beginning of an X session, it asks for the SSH key passphrase if there is a key. It does this with x11-ssh-askpass. I installed it on both of my boxes (the SlackBuild of x11-ssh-askpass intended for Slackware 12.1 still works as of Slackware 14.0), and borrowed this from OpenBSD’s default ~/.xinitrc:
A while ago, I installed Slackware on my old box. At one point, I accidentally switched to -current because I chose the slackpkg mirror too carelessly.
A few days ago, I installed Arch on what was formerly my Gentoo box. I noticed that a terrible bug in nouveau was still present under Arch, therefore I shamefully switched to the proprietary NVIDIA driver. I am considering uninstalling X on my old box to use a framebuffer.
Recently, I customised irssi.
wlair.us.to has returned after an outage at my domain registrar.