[sup-talk] curses pinentry woes (still)

[Sven Moritz Hallberg <sm@khjk.org>]

Hi List,

I see there have been posts about this before, the last from Oct 2009.
Whenever gpg-agent starts pinentry-curses with sup running, the interface gets
"messed up". Unfortunately, I'm still experiencing such a problem with sup
version 0.10.2.

Specifically, when the pinentry screen appears and I press the first key, sup
suddenly reappears, the cursor moves to the bottom right corner and the
passphrase stars start appearing there, wrapping over to the left. When I press
Enter, pinentry reappears and almost always states "wrong passphrase", so I
presume something about the input must get mangled somewhere. Now when I try
again, everything looks as it should (in pinentry) and the passphrase is
accepted. However, after that, sup does not behave normally. The screen does
not update and commands only seem to be recognized if Enter is pressed
afterwards. So I have to press "q Enter" and restart.

On a related note, it asks for the passphrase periodically. Does it require gpg
calls every time it polls for new messages? Is there a way to stop that?


Regards,
Sven
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