Hello Björn, Björn Bidar writes: > Which pinentry are you using? Recently I learned that not all Pinentry's > support the Emacs hack (INSIDE_EMACS). > > I think the Qt pinentry didn't support it for example. not completely sure. The default pinentry is a text file that redirects to some of the other pinentrys. ,---- | $ which pinentry | /usr/bin/pinentry | | $ ls -ltr /usr/bin/pinentry* | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55672 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-tty | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182816 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-qt | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 84320 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76128 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3 | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51576 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-emacs | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63864 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry-curses | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 369 Aug 29 22:49 /usr/bin/pinentry `---- From a terminal, if I just check for help, it looks like the gtk-2 version would be used, but once I'm inside Emacs, I don't know how to check which version is finally really bein used. ,---- | $ pinentry --help | pinentry-gtk2 (pinentry) 1.2.1 | Copyright (C) 2016 g10 Code GmbH `---- Thanks, -- Ángel de Vicente Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing and BigData) Tel.: +34 922-605-747 Web.: http://research.iac.es/proyecto/polmag/ GPG: 0x8BDC390B69033F52