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

On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 01:36 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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.

Oops I do intend to add it to /etc/bashrc.  But our bashrc and
bash_profile are too similar so I made the change at a wrong location
:(.

But then actually we'll need it in *both* bash_profile and bashrc or it
won't work in a login shell.  AFAIK most other distros sources bashrc in
bash_profile.  Should we do the same?

I'll revert the change for now and do experiments in a new branch.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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