pinentry-qt and on-screen keyboards

Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.id.au
Fri Apr 11 02:35:37 CEST 2025


On 11/4/25 04:48, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> $ man gpg-agent
>         --grab
>         --no-grab
>                Tell  the  pinentry  to  grab the keyboard and mouse.  This
> option should be used on X-Servers to avoid X-sniffing at‐
>                tacks. Any use of the option --grab overrides an used option --
> no-grab.  The default is --no-grab.
> 
> So, adding "no-grab" to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf should do what you want.

Ahh bingo, I'll give that a try in a moment.  I was looking at the 
`pinentry` documentation, which was the completely wrong place to look 
for this setting.
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Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

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