On 2017-01-09 15:48, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
thinking of 42.2, which caused some heavy thoughts about most of the systems I care about, makes me raising some questions:
1. Gnome Keyring stopped dealing with GPG keys in 42.2; as a result users of Thunderbird+Enigmail, Mutt+gpg-extensions etc. are driving nuts due to repeatedly typing in their passphrase every once in a while. This could be overcome (== worked-around) by using the former GNOME Keyring version 3.16.0 (see also boo#1012371).
2. What is the alternative suggested to that change in 42.2? A newer version of pinentry was mentioned in GNOME Keyring's changelog, but it appears that none of the versions available for Leap 42.2 actually *fix* the problem.
I'm using a workaround on XFCE, which uses the gnome stack for many things. The trick is using the standard gpg agent instead. On one computer I had to create a new user and compare the resulting working setup, then repair the main user, on another computer it worked out of the box. I assume that what I use should also work on Gnome. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)