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| author | Walter Smuts <smuts.walter@gmail.com> | 2023-07-05 10:03:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Walter Smuts <smuts.walter@gmail.com> | 2023-07-05 10:03:38 +0200 |
| commit | 826d63428d9789b0a67ed1e2ba54496b34060d98 (patch) | |
| tree | 950e6ce9cb0e339c102fe4b91674344bc64eadf4 | |
| parent | fa16c0211d898d337e76397d22de4f92e2405ede (diff) | |
| download | rofi-pass-826d63428d9789b0a67ed1e2ba54496b34060d98.tar.gz | |
Add FAQ on tty pinentry hang
Fix: https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass/issues/230
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@@ -173,6 +173,23 @@ To get this, you need to set `default_user` to `:filename` in your configuration Make sure to run `setxkbmap <language> <variant>` at the start of your Xorg session. +### rofi pass hangs after selecting password + +To access passwords your GPG agent needs to have unlocked your secret key +you're using to encrypt your passwords with. If the secret key hasn't been +unlocked yet it will prompt for the secret key password using `pinentry`. If +`pinentry` is configured to read from a `tty` then `rofi-pass` will hang +indefinitely. To fix this you need to [configure gpg][gpg_pinentry_config] to +use a gui version of `pinentry`. E.g. +``` +$ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf +pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt +``` +You may have to kill the GPG agent if it's still in a bad state: +``` +killall -9 gpg-agent +``` + ## Alternative jreinert has written the roughly compatible tool @@ -180,3 +197,5 @@ jreinert has written the roughly compatible tool definately saner code. Also he provided a nice little script called `passed` to change your fieldnames. [link](https://github.com/jreinert/passed) + +[gpg_pinentry_config][https://github.com/bfrg/gpg-guide/blob/master/gpg-agent.conf#L15] |