use text pinentry in the console

Fourhundred Thecat 400thecat at gmx.ch
Tue Feb 22 17:28:00 CET 2022


Hello,

when I type a gpg command in the terminal, such as:

   gpg -c foo

the GUI pinentry dialog pops up to ask for password (I guess its
pinentry-gtk-2)

How can I confugure so that the ncurses (text based) dialog is used
instead ?

I am using gpg 2.2.12 on Debian 10

thank you



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