pinentry-qt and on-screen keyboards [resolved]

[Stuart Longland]

On 11/4/25 10:35, Stuart Longland via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> 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.

A follow up, this was indeed the fix.  Debian seems to ship a 
`gpg-agent` binary that defaults to `grab`.  Adding this one line and 
rebooting (overkill, but I had a pending kernel update) fixed the issue.
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