Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails

On 11/19/24 22:59, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:

>> I do really sign my BLFS commits with GPG but your (and my) posts to
>> blfs-dev are not signed.  So I can logically consider the git use case
>> more important here (while IMO both Git page and Thunderbird page are a
>> wrong location).
> 
> I've fixed Git with:
> 
> commit 7c9e274a7ac1a97315bce625af2be40ef7afb1c3
> Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
> Date:   Wed Nov 20 12:57:16 2024 +0800
> 
>      profile: Set GPG_TTY for GnuPG
> 
> diff --git a/postlfs/config/profile.xml b/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> index 935d9308f9..0c6b058323 100644
> --- a/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> +++ b/postlfs/config/profile.xml
> @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/share}
>   export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=${XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:-/etc/xdg}
>   export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp/xdg-$USER}
>   
> +# GnuPG wants this or it'll fail with pinentry-curses under some
> +# circumstances (for example signing a Git commit)
> +tty -s &amp;&amp; export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
> +
>   # Set up a red prompt for root and a green one for users.
>   NORMAL="\[\e[0m\]"
>   RED="\[\e[1;31m\]"
> 
> But obviously it doesn't help GUI apps.

I'm not sure this is good for /etc/profile when using a terminal emulator in a 
graphical desktop environment.  I use konsole with multiple instances and tabs.
When creating a new instance or a new tab, /etc/profile is not sourced, only 
$HOME/.bashrc.

I checked two tabs and got:
/dev/pts/4
/dev/pts/13

And in a different instance:
/dev/pts/5

Perhaps there needs to be an alias like

alias git='GPG_TTY=$(tty) git'

Not tested.

   -- Bruce

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