Control: retitle -1 pinentry-qt: immediate exit if $DISPLAY set but unavailable
On 2026-03-06 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-03-06 12:21:08 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > pinentry-qt immediately crashes if the X display is not available. > > This can happen after a ssh to a remote machine (or if the value > > of DISPLAY is no longer valid). > [...] > I forgot to say: obviously, if the X display is not available, > an X dialog box cannot be displayed, and the correct behavior > would be to use "an alternative text-mode dialog" as documented > (in both the man page and the package description), like what > the GTK2 flavor did. Hello, this works as expected (fallback to tty) if DISPLAY is unset but pinentry-qt (and -fltk) exit with an error if DISPLAY points to an invalid or inacessible display. cu Andreas -- "You people are noisy," Nia said. I made the gesture of agreement.

