From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: torys.anderson@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting rid of the GUI pop-ups Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:44:48 -0700 Message-ID: <87k28qxhqn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y3x7z2x7.fsf@byu.edu> <20170216082837.GA13244@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487264153 31643 195.159.176.226 (16 Feb 2017 16:55:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:55:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs Help List To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 16 17:55:49 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cePLO-0007gA-LY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:55:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cePLU-0003Di-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceOEn-0006GQ-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:44:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceOEk-0003vJ-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:44:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pf0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::243]:34815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceOEk-0003v5-LC; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pf0-x243.google.com with SMTP id o64so1885895pfb.1; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:44:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tWT7q2Rmj1CLaJRrq6BwHhhKhOUcjWtgLXXePct9U9c=; b=jHdvzaT14bCCBj7t2eBajX5cw8E4bXc+R1azQrcXvWDtfgI+dZJMvsZkuRWGF7oKFC lMjGhn719rzda+B9KDgNnF2IHwtNswSz4ioEyTe3jdt092Yi9L2/HjNJhQ/StuMuPmUy DOsE7lv/i2kU/fNbzCBaXawY7Siz4mJfSEq0DiqPgbOVtU20ANvzoG5roO8umbRvWkka 5O8QP9soANBkt/ymlvkFOyp5mweGuBdoJ+rUdMKmaUH9o3zvqbsgt3AeSGWkA9C8UN0R xWam7rM3PtFMsp5oGdsAg9b6/W2PIt/ZtsJ4s5Tyv5PZdHgaV+J0y+7yrLjyCymuljNJ 1IvA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tWT7q2Rmj1CLaJRrq6BwHhhKhOUcjWtgLXXePct9U9c=; b=U/OQU66Rk4OiXyXCfQGqT7+/OtuMWexm+oSViDF/cHpcGsAC12qSehNkYfvAs5iLxo Ly0IR6OU7f7VplCnZWzdwcGkD/cq7b5ccQf/jqE/POfNe9cIfOeR3krhUrvE60AkLuNJ 8yh1rkttCCTpwk+54jsaX/le2uOo/lR3t7IyrRXcox3VKkAb0rMSkAYdGnCgk5oYc1kv NzBR1jaDuXy0FcZuSQNRclCFkEgyZbDitFtzuRAtZVPsm/hkErp0ZnYZTzm+X65h59pk NieC/P+/7LJHE4/0BCUE1eDkVg0lwRJ0ymvdRMKF7RpU4FgBYqzv1OFtuE2NJlfixgTS FLrw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nvOptZebCINv5qrkWsCUG7YGw7+FOGbnsKyHT/D8VHW8e7gV+7J6DuB74lf3xQ5A== X-Received: by 10.84.208.227 with SMTP id c32mr4043701plj.71.1487259889550; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:44:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from endless-worlds ([128.187.112.11]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y23sm14476907pfi.66.2017.02.16.07.44.48 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:44:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170216082837.GA13244@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:28:37 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::243 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112338 Archived-At: 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? 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