From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting Org-Crypt to work (doc bug?)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:19:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914111944.GA23931@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z8g4ulq.fsf@no.workgroup>
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:42:57AM +0200, Gregor Zattler wrote:
> Hi David,
> * David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> [2020-09-13; 17:11]:
> > Yes, gpg-agent is installed and appears to have been started in
> > background. My O/S is Debian on a Chromebook.
> >
> > I start Emacs via 'xterm -e emacs' and just noticed (thanks to you) that
> > I'm getting a textual popup on the xterm asking for the
> > passphrase. Given that, everything works.
> >
> > So, you're saying that the textual popup is the correct mechanism for
> > getting the passphrase?
>
> That's one possible way. If you want to have a graphical
> dialog box, check which pinentry packages are installed:
>
> $ dpkg -l '*pinentry*'
[...]
> as you see, at my system, there are two pinentry packages
> installed (besides the docs): pinentry-curses for terminal
> while pinentry-qt provides a graphical dialog box. I choose
> pinentry-qt, because it had fewer dependencies and was
> smaller than the other options.
>
> If your system lacks a graphical pinentry, install one.
Pinentry is gpg's way to ask you for your passphrase.
AFAIK there's a way for Emacs to do the pinentry thing
(in case you don't like some unrelated popup exploding
in your face).
I don't know what the current status is (there used to
be a pinentry.el).
So... lots of possibilities.
Cheers
- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 2:09 Getting Org-Crypt to work (doc bug?) David Masterson
2020-09-13 8:32 ` Gregor Zattler
2020-09-14 0:11 ` David Masterson
2020-09-14 8:42 ` Gregor Zattler
2020-09-14 11:19 ` tomas [this message]
2020-09-13 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-09-14 0:02 ` David Masterson
2020-09-14 11:18 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-14 11:25 ` tomas
2020-09-14 14:17 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-15 9:15 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-14 20:31 ` David Masterson
2020-09-14 12:50 ` Bastien
2020-09-14 20:35 ` David Masterson
2020-09-14 21:24 ` David Masterson
2020-09-17 6:16 ` David Masterson
2020-09-17 7:06 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 9:05 ` Bastien
2020-09-23 21:33 ` David Masterson
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