Greetings, General Cygwin discussions and problem reports!
> On 2026-05-31 06:12, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
>> Greetings, All!
>> > I've started to work from home, and connecting to my work laptop via SSH
>> > and
>> Deskflow (Synergy).
>> It works fine except two things. One if that docker desktop is unable to pull
>> layers when inside the ssh session, and another one is that when I pull from
>> remote GIT repo, git calls to pass to retrieve stored passwords.Which in turn
>> calls to pinentry through gpg. Which is trying to display the GUI dialog in a
>> headless session.
>> Is there a ncurses or tty pinentry variant available for Cygwin?
> pinentry-w32 (obsolete) -> pinentry GnuPG password dialog (terminal)
> pinentry-emacs GnuPG password dialog (emacs)
> pinentry-gnome3 GnuPG password dialog (GNOME,MATE)
> pinentry-gtk2 GnuPG password dialog (GTK 2)
> pinentry-qt3 (obsolete) -> pinentry-qt GnuPG password dialog (Qt)
> pinentry-qt4 (obsolete) -> pinentry-qt GnuPG password dialog (Qt)
> Make sure DISPLAY is unset or no binaries other than pinentry{,-w32} exist;
> curses is the fallback for the GUI binaries.
I didn't know that. Will double-check and report back with findings.
Also, sorry for typos.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, June 1, 2026 10:15:47
Sorry for my terrible english...
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