[Enigmail] Enigmail keyboard focus

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Cooper Quintin wrote:
> 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,
> 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?

I think the GTK-version of pinentry doesn't allow it for security
reasons. On the other hand, there is also a QT version of pinentry, and
I know that this one does support copy&paste (gnupg-users at gnupg.org).
You might need to compile it yourself, and create a symbolic link from
pinentry-qt to pinentry.

For more details I'd suggest you contact the GnuPG authors
(gnupg-users at gnupg.org)

- -Patrick
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