use text pinentry in the console

Fourhundred Thecat 400thecat at gmx.ch
Wed Feb 23 11:22:38 CET 2022


 > On 2022-02-23 08:40, jman wrote:
>
> I think you can set that with an env var in your ~/.bashrc:
> export PINENTRY_USER_DATA=ncurses
>
> and the pinentry chooser will be `/usr/bin/pinentry-ncurses`.
>
> As a further option, I use the basic `tty` pinentry chooser and I set
> this in my ~/.bashrc:
> export PINENTRY_USER_DATA=tty

thank you, but exporting PINENTRY_USER_DATA=ncurses or
PINENTRY_USER_DATA=tty has no effect

I still get the popup gtk pinenetry dialog..



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