[Enigmail] Enigmail keyboard focus

[Cooper Quintin]

Patrick,
Thanks, this partially solves the problem, I can now alt tab and copy
the password from my keypass.  But I still can't ctrl+v to paste the
password in the dialog.  Any way to do this?

Cooper Quintin
Lead Developer - BitSamurai.net
http://BitSamurai.net
(510) 827-5382



Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> 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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