As much as I hate the bloat of the GNOME desktop, I tend to use it on most of my machine. Its easier than trying to maintin something else. I also use openssh extensivly, and normally have a shell or 10 open to different machines. My laptop is seutp to run a backup once a day to one of these remote machines, it uses rsync over ssh so I have to either enter my password (hard to do in a script launched from cron) or the ssh agent needs to have the key loaded.
The easy way to do this is to have it ask you when you login. This is really easy to do:
Go to Desktop->Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions->Startup Programs
Click on 'add' and enter /usr/bin/ssh-add then click on close. Log out and back in and you should have a dialog asking you for your ssh password.
Now if I could just convince Firefox and Thunderbird to use ssh-agent for their authentication...
.cp
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