Why is kleopatra using pinentry-gtk2 and why doesn't it work for me?

Andreas Petzold andreas.petzold at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Thu Jan 14 09:00:59 UTC 2010


	Hi Kevin,

On Thursday 14 January 2010 00:52:37 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Andreas Petzold wrote:
> > a) why does pinentry-gtk2 get stuck?
>
> Its "feature" to capture keyboard focus for security reasons might be
> misbehaving in KDE.

I'll try running kleopatra in GNOME to check.

>
> > b) why isn't pinentry-qt4 called by gpg-protect-tool?
>
> You may have pinentry-gtk hardcoded in some config file or environment
> variable.

Do you have any idea, what config file this could be? I did a grep in ~/.gnupg 
and in my env vars but that did turn up anything.

	Cheers,

		Andreas


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