[Enigmail] Enigmail keyboard focus

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Cooper Quintin wrote:
> Using Thunerbird 2.0.0.17 with the enigmail plugin I notice that when
> the enter passphrase dialog comes up it takes the keyboard focus and
> doesn't let go.  This is unfortunate because I use randomly generated
> passwords which I store in a keypass file which I need to copy and paste
> into the dialog, however I can't do it because enigmail keeps the
> keyboard focus.  Is there a way to disable this? It didn't used to do
> this.  If it makes any difference I am on ubuntu 8.10.  Thanks for your
> time.

As far as I remember, this only happens with the gpg-agent (with
pinentry to be more precise). If you do use gpg-agent (and only then),
create a file ~/.gnupg/cat gpg-agent.conf with the following content:

# Do not grab the keyboard from other applications
no-grab

- -Patrick
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