pinentry-gtk-2 dialog doesn't appear before getting input

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:10:04 +0100
Andreas Ronnquist <gusnan at librem.one> wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:47:32 +0900
>NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
>
>>Andreas Ronnquist <gusnan at librem.one> wrote:  
>>> I have a problem on Debian unstable (running in Virtualbox), running
>>> the Xfce desktop - 
>>>
>>> I have my gpg key on a card (a Librem key, which basically is a
>>> Nitrokey) when using pinentry to enter the card password, I first
>>> have to press my mouse on the screen (or a key on my keyboard) to
>>> make the password dialog appear.    
>>
>>I think that it's related to window manager.  For testing, you can
>>manually invoke pinentry like:
>>
>>   $ pinentry                 # run pinentry by command line (-gtk2 or
>> any) confirm                    # shows a dialog box
>>   bye                        # finish the session
>>   $ 
>>  
>
>Thanks - that indeed runs just fine, and without the problems I
>described.
>
>>Doing this makes it easy to identify a problem (from complicated
>>interaction of gpg <-> gpg-agent <-> pinentry).
>>  
>>> Is there any way to make the dialog appear at once, when it is ready
>>> to take my passphrase entry, or some workaround of any kind?    
>>
>>It seems for me that:
>>
>>You can somehow control the behavior of the window manager.
>>
>>In its configuration by "Focus" tab in "Window Manager Tweaks":
>>
>>    https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/wmtweaks
>>
>>And/or the first entry of "Accessibility" tab which says "Raise
>>windows when any mous button is pressed".
>>
>>Or "Focus" tab in "Preferences":
>>
>>    https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/preferences
>>
>>Looking the commit log of xfwm4 (about "stacking"), it appears
>>something has been changed.  
>
>You are right - I have the settings 
>
>xfwm4/raise_with_any_button (disabled)
>xfwm4/raise_on_focus (disabled)
>
>but xfwm4/raise_on_click enabled in xfce4-settings-editor - this to be
>able to scroll windows without focusing them.
>
>It would be very nice if pinentry could ignore these settings and
>always focus the entry window to avoid the problem I have.
>

Changing to pinentry-gtk3 also removes the problem, and that is an
acceptable solution for me, so I have no hurry in getting fixes to the
gtk-2 version.

--
Andreas