Issue with pinentry GUI agent

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 9/4/18 6:10 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> or do you mean something else?

without DISPLAY env var, qt version automatically falls back to curses
variant despite the argument

kristianf at ares ~ $ unset DISPLAY
kristianf at ares ~ $ /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 --display :0

(pinentry-qt4:6370): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:41.576: cannot open display:
kristianf at ares ~ $ export DISPLAY=:0
kristianf at ares ~ $ /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4 --display :0
OK Pleased to meet you

throwing in a simple wrapper around pinentry,
#!/bin/bash
env > /tmp/pinentry-log.txt
echo "$@" >> /tmp/pinentry-log.txt
exec /usr/bin/pinentry-qt "$@"

and diffing the log between keep-display, shows that the difference is
+DISPLAY=:0

btw, you say started, but this should also be updated when issuing
UPDATESTARTUPTTY shouldn't it? In any case, it solved the issue for the
user and I replicated it also on pinentry 1.1.0 on gnupg 2.2.10

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