Hi David, * David Masterson <dsmasterson92...@outlook.com> [2020-09-13; 17:11]: > Yes, gpg-agent is installed and appears to have been started in > background. My O/S is Debian on a Chromebook. > > I start Emacs via 'xterm -e emacs' and just noticed (thanks to you) that > I'm getting a textual popup on the xterm asking for the > passphrase. Given that, everything works. > > So, you're saying that the textual popup is the correct mechanism for > getting the passphrase?
That's one possible way. If you want to have a graphical dialog box, check which pinentry packages are installed: $ dpkg -l '*pinentry*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===============-============-============-====================================================== un pinentry <none> <none> (no description available) ii pinentry-curses 1.1.0-2 amd64 curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG ii pinentry-doc 1.1.0-2 all documentation for pinentry packages un pinentry-gnome3 <none> <none> (no description available) un pinentry-gtk2 <none> <none> (no description available) ii pinentry-qt 1.1.0-2 amd64 Qt-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG un pinentry-qt4 <none> <none> (no description available) un pinentry-x11 <none> <none> (no description available) as you see, at my system, there are two pinentry packages installed (besides the docs): pinentry-curses for terminal while pinentry-qt provides a graphical dialog box. I choose pinentry-qt, because it had fewer dependencies and was smaller than the other options. If your system lacks a graphical pinentry, install one. Ciao; Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-