Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups

[torys . anderson]

I also get the pop-ups for git, though, which leads me to think it 
is not specifically about GPG. Is this a generalized problem, or 
does it happen that GPG and Magit have made some similar 
decisions? 

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:14:39PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Tory S. Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > With Emacs 25.1.1, password prompts are no longer in the menu 
> > > bar but
> > > via my (KDE/Plasma) window manager.
> > [...]
> > > I see these prompts most often when opening .gpg files and 
> > > when trying
> > > to perform a git push.
> >
> > I think you'll find these are gpg dialogue boxes, not Emacs 
> > ones. See eg
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-02/msg00102.html
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16826849/emacs-stop-popup-window-for-gpg-passphrase
>
> Yes. Newer GPGs think users crave for popups. The component
> in GPG responsible for that... uh... embellishment is called
> "pinentry", and there are different ones (for Gnome and KDE,
> depending on your masochism's flavour). Luckily there's a
> pinentry-emacs (I think it's in EPA); for tty users there
> seems to be a pinentry-tty.
>
> The situation isn't as dire as it used to be in the first days
> of GPG2: it had only GUI pinentries. I just wouldn't have
> used that.
>
> regards
> -- tomás