Encryption Nightmare - I can't turn it off

[Brendan Coupe]

I'm running LXDE on Fedora 29. I have options for pinentry-qt (which
is qt5) and pinentry-qt4 which is a symlink pointing at pinentry-qt.

I tried switching to pinentry-qt and it did not work. Maybe it would
if I was running lxde-qt or kde. I may try them eventually.

pinentry-gtk works fine.

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Brendan Coupe

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 1:06 AM Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
>
> 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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