On 03.12.2014 00:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 11:40 AM, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
>> Contrary to my statement above, pinentry-curses seems to be generally
>> working as expected.
> 
> yep, i think this report is specifically about something broken in the
> interaction between pinentry-gtk2 and scim.

Yep, and it turns out to be a VERY old problem indeed (still reading up
on it).  It's from at least 2007 or most likely even 2006!

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel/14423
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330073

The people at Novell came to the conclusion that the problem needs to be
fixed in upstream pinentry-gtk-2.  Unfortunately the reference link is
404 now and even web.archive.org does not have a backup copy of it.

> I note that setting the GTK_IM_MODULE environment might not be relevant
> for pinentry-qt4 at all, because qt4 probably doesn't inspect the GTK_*
> environment variables.

My bad.  Obviously, that should read QT_IM_MODULE which I have set to
scim as default.  It still is the (known) case that pinentry-qt4 works.
 This provides a good workaround for anyone affected by this issue.


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