diff --git a/app/main.ts b/app/main.ts
index a58ac4ca8b..a6d88c6ba4 100644
--- a/app/main.ts
+++ b/app/main.ts
@@ -1466,6 +1466,9 @@ function getAppLocale(): string {
 // Signal doesn't really use media keys so we set this switch here to unblock
 // them so that other apps can use them if they need to.
 app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-features', 'HardwareMediaKeyHandling');
+if (OS.isLinux()) {
+  app.commandLine.appendSwitch('password-store', 'basic');
+}
 
 // This method will be called when Electron has finished
 // initialization and is ready to create browser windows.