Andy Stewart - 2015-10-02

Hi everybody,

Recently, I went to a website with the Midori browser, and received errors regarding certificates. The browser asked me if I trusted the website, which I did, but still wouldn't allow me to access the site.

I discovered the following remedy:

Create the ~/.xinitrc file:

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#!/bin/sh

export `gnome-keyring-daemon --start`
exec /usr/bin/icewm-session

I made mine executable, but I'm not sure if that's strictly required:
chmod u+x ~/.xinitrc

Create a symlink:
ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession

(.xinitrc is executed when a user types "startx", and ~/.xsession is executed when one logs in via xdm)

In addition, an update of the certificates may help:
sudo update-ca-certificates

Restart the X server. Logging out is not sufficient. A reboot will work but is overkill.

Start Midori and go to the website that was complaining about certificate errors. It should now work correctly.

Have a lot of fun, and 73,

Andy
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