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Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs?
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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer |
Subject: |
Re: Passphrase caching for GnuPG in Emacs? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:24:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org> writes:
> On 2015-11-11, at 09:15, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>
>> Can the pinentry-program setting be changed on-the-fly so I can say
>> "give me the gtk one" or "give me the curses one" depending on
>> (display-graphic-p) ?
>
> I don’t know about that. However, /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 falls
> back to curses in a “real” terminal.
>
> I realize that I may have misunderstood tomás, and I’m also not sure
> about your use cases: In a “GUI terminal” (say, xterm),
> pinentry-gtk-2 pops up a window, whereas it uses that terminal if
> there is no GUI.
I had a problem where if I did ssh without -X, I wouldn't be able to
type into the pinentry from Emacs. I suppose I should try again with the
newest gnupg2 to see if that is still an issue.
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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
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