Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 21:27 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote: > I'm trying to set thunderbird to use my physical PGP smartcard, after > setting allow_external_gnupg in the advanced config panel and add my > key > in the End-To-End Encryption config, I still can't decrypt my > encrypted > emails. > > After some searching on the internet, i found this discussion, so I > rebuilt pinentry after gnome3 was installed and this works for me. I > guess thunderbird need at lease one graphical pinentry instead only > pinentry-curses and pinentry-tty. Of course because there's no terminal where thunderbird is running. It also happens with "git commit -S" (well, in this case there's even a terminal but pinentry still dislike it) but I've never bothered to consider it a BLFS bug. I just cannot see any way we can ever "fix" this. Raising gcr to recommended is not an option because GNOME is not used widely by BLFS users. -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-dev Unsubscribe: See the above information page