> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:11:33 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: GPG2 hangs the system if I activate another window
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> On 07/02/12 01:09, Raffaele Ricciardi wrote:
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> > I've downloaded and compiled GPG2 on Debian Linux (Gnome).
> >
> > When GPG2 opens a popup to ask for a password, I can't switch to
> > another window without locking up the desktop. Neither the mouse
> > nor any key works anymore, not even the power button, and I have to
> > keep it pressed for 6 seconds to force power-off.
> >
> > Is there any way around this? I need to switch to another window
> > because I keep my passwords in a password database application I
> > may need to open, and on a laptop with a touchpad, a click can be
> > fired off inadvertently anyway.
> I think this is by design. See the following option in the man page
> for gpg-agent and make sure you understand the security implications
> before using it:
>
> - --no-grab: Tell the pinentry not to grab the keyboard and mouse. This
> option should in general not be used to avoid X-sniffing attacks.
Thank you for the tip about looking into the help for gpg-agent (I was
looking
into that for gpg2).
It seems GPG2 on my system is running Seahorse, a Gnome front end for GnuPG:
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/seahorse-PDdgFx/S.gpg-agent:2402:1
That's the reason this other user, who is running XFCE instead of Gnome,
is not
experiencing my same issue:
> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:31:58 +0100
> From: Peter Lebbing <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: GPG2 hangs the system if I activate another window
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> On 07/02/12 11:11, [email protected] wrote:
> >> When GPG2 opens a popup to ask for a password, I can't switch to
> >> another window without locking up the desktop. Neither the mouse
> >> nor any key works anymore, not even the power button, and I have to
> >> keep it pressed for 6 seconds to force power-off.
> > I think this is by design.
> Locking up seems a bit harsh . Here, on XFCE with Debian testing, my
desktop
> definitely does not lock up. I can press some buttons with the mouse,
but I
> can't type any text in any other window than the password input
dialog. But at
> no point do I lose control, and once I dismiss the password dialog, I can
> continue using my computer. This would be the "design" I expected .
>
> That said, if you want to pass the password from a password database
> application, you probably indeed need --no-grab, and that might solve the
> locking problem as a byproduct.
I'll investigate the issue further. Since in my case GPG2 is being
invoked by another
application (Emacs), this is not straightforward.
Thank you guys for your support.
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