kwalletmanager starts as a hidden system tray icon. Click on the popup arrow at the end of the system tray to see it.

OK, thanks for the hint, it works.
But I still have a problem:
I can launch kwalletmanager via the KDE menu. When I click on KDE->System->Wallet manager (I am not sure of the translation), nothing happens.

same thing, look in the hidden items in your systray for it (yes, it's bad upstream behavior imo).

fwiw, if I'm annoyed enough and have time, I'll hunt through bugs.kde.org for an open issue on that, and if there isn't one yet, I'll file one.

So, what I'm going to argue upstream is basically:

The app menu item should envoke:
1. kwalletmanager --show
2. --show should actually *do* something if the app is already running (currently it does not)

OR (even better, but this may require more work to get right):

1.  kwalletmanager before should (essentially) run with --show by default when launched interactively (either from command-line, menus, whatever).
2.  and in the autolaunch/launch-on-demand case, kwalletmanager simply *not* --show

either way, everyone should win in this scenario.

Looks OK to me.

I wanted to open kwalletmanager to disconnect it.
So, when I click on kwalletmanager, I waited for some informations, and nothing happens. So, your solution seems OK to me.

Best regards,

YC

(In reply to comment #5)
> So, what I'm going to argue upstream is basically:
> 
> The app menu item should envoke:
> 1. kwalletmanager --show
> 2. --show should actually *do* something if the app is already running
> (currently it does not)
> 
> OR (even better, but this may require more work to get right):
> 
> 1.  kwalletmanager before should (essentially) run with --show by default
> when launched interactively (either from command-line, menus, whatever).
> 2.  and in the autolaunch/launch-on-demand case, kwalletmanager simply *not*
> --show
> 
> either way, everyone should win in this scenario.

Agreed. I just spent ten minutes hunting around for a solution to this, even resorting to finding kwallet config files to try and edit a stored username manually (they're encrypted, doh!).

This is a serious usability bug. No visual or commandline output resulting from execution of kwalletmanager implies to the user that nothing has happened, and that the app has silently died.

Using the --show option didn't make any difference, by the way.

Please address this!

I'm hitting this in Fedora 19 Beta with kwallet-4.10.3-1.fc19.x86_64, except I don't see any icon anywhere -- not in the task bar, not in the system tray, not in the arrow at the end of the system tray.

The process is running:

$ pgrep -lf kwallet
2474 kwalletd
3831 kwalletmanager

But the hidden system tray arrow only reveals
  Notifications
  Manage Print Jobs
  Software Updater
  Device Notifier
  Battery Monitor

I have to kill the kwalletmanager process and launch it again with --show to actually get it to appear.

How are you starting kwalletmanager?  Part of your saved session?

I was going to suggest adding "--show" to the desktop file, but I see there are four files:

$ rpm -ql kwallet |grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager-kwalletd.desktop
/usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/kwalletconfig.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/kwalletmanager_show.desktop

And they have different Exec lines:

$ rpm -ql kwallet | grep desktop | xargs grep -h Exec
Exec=kwalletmanager --kwalletd
Exec=kwalletmanager %u
Exec=kcmshell4 kwalletconfig
Exec=kwalletmanager --show


So the /usr/share/kde4/services/kwalletmanager_show.desktop file does include the --show option, but apparently that's not what gets executed when I launch kwalletmanager from the KDE menus since I see nothing on the screen.

Maybe the --show should be added to /usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager.desktop also?

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #9)
> How are you starting kwalletmanager?  Part of your saved session?


No, I used the menus.  Using the KDE kickoff menu, I launched it from
   Applications -> System -> Wallet Management Tool

(In reply to Jeff Bastian from comment #10)
> Maybe the --show should be added to
> /usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager.desktop also?


This fixes the problem for me:

--- /usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager.desktop.ORIG    2013-05-02 23:43:14.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/share/applications/kde4/kwalletmanager.desktop 2013-05-30 13:51:25.858920830 -0500
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 GenericName[x-test]=xxWallet Management Toolxx
 GenericName[zh_CN]=钱包管理工具
 GenericName[zh_TW]=錢包管理工具
-Exec=kwalletmanager %u
+Exec=kwalletmanager --show %u
 MimeType=application/x-kwallet;
 InitialPreference=6
 Icon=kwalletmanager


I can now launch the wallet manager from the KDE kickoff menu and the window appears.

From the wallet manager, I went to Settings -> Configure Wallet and I disabled the checkbox for "Show manager in system tray".  Now I can run kwalletmanager without the --show option and the window appears also.

There seems to be a bug causing the system tray icon to go missing.

if on f19, then it's likely qt-4.8.4-18.fc19, see bug #968794

Oh, you're right!  I hadn't noticed, but the mixer icon is also missing.  I'll close this and let bug 968794 handle it.

I downgraded to qt-4.8.4-17.fc19.x86_64 (from -18.fc19) and that fixed the problem: the wallet manager icon is back in the hidden system tray, along with kmix and klipper and more.

Thanks!