From: torys.anderson@gmail.com
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:44:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k28qxhqn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170216082837.GA13244@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:28:37 +0100")
I also get the pop-ups for git, though, which leads me to think it
is not specifically about GPG. Is this a generalized problem, or
does it happen that GPG and Magit have made some similar
decisions?
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-16 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-15 19:09 Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups Tory S. Anderson
2017-02-15 21:03 ` Jude DaShiell
2017-02-15 21:35 ` torys.anderson
2017-02-15 23:11 ` Jude DaShiell
2017-02-15 23:16 ` Jude DaShiell
2017-02-16 21:44 ` torys.anderson
2017-02-16 22:09 ` John Mastro
2017-02-17 8:37 ` tomas
2017-02-15 23:12 ` Jude DaShiell
2017-02-16 2:14 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-16 8:28 ` tomas
2017-02-16 15:44 ` torys.anderson [this message]
2017-02-16 15:53 ` tomas
2017-02-16 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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