diff --git a/.bash_profile-cosmic b/.bash_profile-cosmic
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.bash_profile-cosmic
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+# The alpha release of cosmic doesn't support xdg autostart so this is a hack to handle my ssh-agent
+if [ "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}" == "COSMIC" ]; then
+    ps -ef | grep "ssh-agent" |grep -v grep > /dev/null || ssh-agent -a /run/user/1000/ssh-agent.socket
+    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/ssh-agent.socket
+fi