Encryption Nightmare - I can't turn it off

[Jack]

I would expect that having KMM installed really should have sufficient  
KDE and QT dependencies that pinentry-qt should work, but perhaps you  
are just missing something else omitted as a dependency of something  
else.  See if "ldd /usr/bin/pinentry-whatever" shows any problems for  
any of the various pinentry programs.   Oddly my pinentry-qt4 is also a  
symlink to pinentry-qt4 although it points to some Qt5 libraries, but I  
do run a full KDE desktop.

Jack

On 2019.02.08 19:41, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ----
> 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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