Hi There, I think this is a bug with pinentry-gtk-2. Running it almost always results in the following warning:
$ echo getpin | pinentry-gtk-2 OK Pleased to meet you ** (pinentry-gtk-2:28067): WARNING **: it took 32 tries to grab the keyboard D this is a test OK Sometimes it (erratically) fails outright as follows: $ echo getpin | pinentry-gtk-2 OK Pleased to meet you ** (pinentry-gtk-2:28071): WARNING **: it took 38 tries to grab the keyboard ** (pinentry-gtk-2:28071): CRITICAL **: could not grab pointer: already grabbed (1) ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry> If I replace pinentry-gtk-2 with pinentry-qt or pinentry-curses I don't get any such warning anymore. (For pinentry-curses I have to type getpin, and redirect the stdin, of course.) It may or may not be related to the fact that I'm running under fvwm, and not a standard desktop environment. GI -- Did you hear about the blonde who threw away her weight loss video? She noticed that the people on the video weren't losing weight either!