Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:14:39PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Tory S. Anderson wrote:
> 
> > With Emacs 25.1.1, password prompts are no longer in the menu bar but
> > via my (KDE/Plasma) window manager.
> [...]
> > I see these prompts most often when opening .gpg files and when trying
> > to perform a git push.
> 
> I think you'll find these are gpg dialogue boxes, not Emacs ones. See eg
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-02/msg00102.html
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16826849/emacs-stop-popup-window-for-gpg-passphrase

Yes. Newer GPGs think users crave for popups. The component
in GPG responsible for that... uh... embellishment is called
"pinentry", and there are different ones (for Gnome and KDE,
depending on your masochism's flavour). Luckily there's a
pinentry-emacs (I think it's in EPA); for tty users there
seems to be a pinentry-tty.

The situation isn't as dire as it used to be in the first days
of GPG2: it had only GUI pinentries. I just wouldn't have
used that.

regards
- -- tomás
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