[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed Gnome, Evolution and GPG
While attempting to set up a new workstation on Tumbleweed, I found what I would consider to be a packaging problem with the Tumbleweed Gnome desktop. Fresh out of the box, when attempting to GPG sign an email, it would always fail. After some troubleshooting, I found that it was due to a missing package. Installing pinentry-gtk2 fixed this functionality (as gpgme was actually able to pop up a prompt asking for my key password). It also fixed gpa not being able to do anything which required a password prompt (generating a new key, modifying an existing password protected key). It seems that gnome desktop (or perhaps Evolution) should probably pull pinentry-gtk2 in as a dependency. -- Ryan DeShone -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Friday, March 06, 2015 02:49:54 PM Ryan DeShone wrote:
While attempting to set up a new workstation on Tumbleweed, I found what I would consider to be a packaging problem with the Tumbleweed Gnome desktop.
There are other problems with GPG and Gnome. See this forum thread: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505413-GPG-and-Gnome-Apps I'll note that "pinentry-gtk2" is installed for me, and I did not take any special action to achieve that. But maybe that depends on when the install was done. I don't normally use evolution, so I didn't try that. However, seahorse does not show my gpg keys. I suspect that this is because the in the latest release of gpg, there is a change in behavior of gpg-agent. And seahorse is emulating the old behavior rather than the new behavior. Maybe Gnome startup should run gpg-agent, at least until seahorse catches up with these changes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Ryan DeShone wrote:
existing password protected key). It seems that gnome desktop (or perhaps Evolution) should probably pull pinentry-gtk2 in as a dependency.
As far as I can tell, this is an issue in pinentry-qt4. In KDE's Plasma I had issues with gpg-agent and pinentry-qt4 not even showing up (IPC errors on debug) until I installed pinentry-gtk2. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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