Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org> writes:

> On 2015-11-11, at 09:15, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
>
>> Can the pinentry-program setting be changed on-the-fly so I can say
>> "give me the gtk one" or "give me the curses one" depending on
>> (display-graphic-p) ?
>
> I don’t know about that.  However, /usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 falls
> back to curses in a “real” terminal.
>
> I realize that I may have misunderstood tomás, and I’m also not sure
> about your use cases: In a “GUI terminal” (say, xterm),
> pinentry-gtk-2 pops up a window, whereas it uses that terminal if
> there is no GUI.

I had a problem where if I did ssh without -X, I wouldn't be able to
type into the pinentry from Emacs. I suppose I should try again with the
newest gnupg2 to see if that is still an issue.

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Kevin Brubeck Unhammer

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