Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-07-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2019-07-09 11:58:46 +0200, Emmanuel Revah wrote: > I've followed these steps carefully, on 2 computers, both on Debian > Buster, 64 bit. The only thing that seems logic to me is that there > might be an issue with pinentry-qt itself. > > If I remove all pinentry-* except for qt and clean g

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-07-09 Thread Emmanuel Revah
Le 2019/06/27 17:41, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : On Thu 2019-06-27 10:28:43 +0200, Emmanuel Revah wrote: In .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf I went from "pinentry-program pinentry-qt" to "pinentry-program pinentry". "pinentry-program pinentry" is probably the same as no line at all (it is the default).

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2019-06-27 10:28:43 +0200, Emmanuel Revah wrote: > In .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf I went from "pinentry-program pinentry-qt" to > "pinentry-program pinentry". "pinentry-program pinentry" is probably the same as no line at all (it is the default). I strongly recommend sticking with the simplest

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-27 Thread Emmanuel Revah
I managed to get things back to normal, perhaps this can help (at least someone). In .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf I went from "pinentry-program pinentry-qt" to "pinentry-program pinentry". After each edition of that file, I did `killall gpg-agent`, and to test (from Enigmail troubleshooting doc) :

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-27 Thread Emmanuel Revah
Thanks Daniel for the detailed explanations. I (apt) removed pinentry-gnome (and as you guessed, I already had pinentry-qt installed), and now Enigmail cannot open any encrypted emails, it displays the error message "GnuPG cannot query your passphrase via pinentry." I tried adding the option

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2019-06-26 14:03:09 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > * gcr prefers to grab the desktop inputs, to avoid other > processes snooping on your password as it is typed. it's not clear sorry, this last sentence got cut off. it was: it's not clear to me how to use gcr in a non-syste

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Control: reassign 930062 pinentry-gnome3 Control: retitle 930062 pinentry-gnome3 grabs keyboard and mouse input despite --no-global-grab or 'OPTION no-grab' Control: forwarded 930062 https://dev.gnupg.org/T4587 Hi Emmanuel-- Thanks for the report! An explanation follows, along with some diagnos

Bug#930062: enigmail: Engimail decrypt-passphrase window takes control of desktop

2019-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Revah
Package: enigmail Version: 2:2.0.10+ds1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I opened Thunderbird and selected an encrypted message. Or, I opened Thunderbird and the first message o