Encryption Nightmare - I can't turn it off

[Thomas Baumgart]

Brendan,

On Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2019 21:11:30 CET Brendan Coupe wrote:

> I solved my encryption problem so I wanted to explain how just in case
> anyone else is having a similar problem.
> 
> This morning I saved a test file that was encrypted. When I tried to
> open it with KMM the error said the file was not recognized. Same
> problem that I described above.
> 
> Then I tried starting KMM from the command line. I was asked to enter
> the password to unlock my file in the terminal. I did and the file
> opened. I closed the file and tried again and my system remembered the
> password. I am now able to run KMM from the program icon in my
> application launch bar without a problem until the next time i logout
> (or it times out).
> 
> I knew I was close so I tried several ideas I found on Google. The one
> that worked is changing a line in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf from:
> 
> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
> to
> pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk

and since we are a Qt application, there is

	pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt5

or

	pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4

for the folks still on KDE4.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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