gpg-agent and X

[Mark H. Wood]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:16:41AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> I have a my setup depending strongly on gpg-agent. For this, I preseed
> some passphrases via pam_gnupg.
> 
> While this setup work well on my Devuan machine, I have some troubles on
> the Gentoo one, that I don't get solved.
> 
> When the agent is started when I login via xdm (wdm), the agent does
> never use X for displaying the pinentry. Even when `updatestartuptty` is
> issued afterwards. As I use gpg-card even not everytime from the
> console, I need that to display a X pinentry (currently the qt one, gtk
> was preferred with gtk2 but the gtk3 one is horrible.)

The only thing I can think of to check is:  have you selected
pinentry-qt5 using 'eselect'?

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Mark H. Wood
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