what is the debian default

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:48:25 +0200
From: Ingo Klöcker <kloecker@kde.org>
Reply-To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: pinentry-qt and on-screen keyboards

On Mittwoch, 9. April 2025 23:57:24 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Stuart Longland via Gnupg-users wrote:

Is there a way to relax this restriction?

$ man gpg-agent
--grab
--no-grab
Tell the pinentry to grab the keyboard and mouse. This option should be used on X-Servers to avoid X-sniffing at‐
tacks. Any use of the option --grab overrides an used option -- no-grab. The default is --no-grab.

So, adding "no-grab" to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf should do what you want.

Granted. Unless you know that pinentry is always invoked and controlled by gpg-agent it's not obvious that you have to look at the manual page of gpg- agent to look for options to configure pinentry.

Hmm, the default should be "no-grab" according to the man page. According to the history "no-grab" is default since gnupg 2.1.23 (released almost 8 years ago). Maybe Debian decided that "grab" is better for you.

Regards,
Ingo
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