On 2026-03-06 12:21:08 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> pinentry-qt immediately crashes if the X display is not available.
> This can happen after a ssh to a remote machine (or if the value
> of DISPLAY is no longer valid).
[...]

I forgot to say: obviously, if the X display is not available,
an X dialog box cannot be displayed, and the correct behavior
would be to use "an alternative text-mode dialog" as documented
(in both the man page and the package description), like what
the GTK2 flavor did.

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