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pinentry does not appear, windows vista, thunderbird, enigmail
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When Enigmail in Thunderbird needs to open a passphrase protected key the
pinentry window does not show up. Thunderbird hangs. If you close thunderbird
the pinentry then shows up.

This appears unrelated to the "hidden in the background" error which happens if
you run GnuPG on the command-line. Here the window really doesn't appear anywhere.

The default pinentry.exe appears to be the qt4 pinentry. I'm not sure if I have
QT4 installed however. IF you simply cp pinentry-w32.exe to pinentry.exe it
works. Perhaps the more compatible w32 pinentry should be used by default?

gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 (Gpg4win 2.0.2)
Enigmail 1.1.2
Thunderbird 3.1.1

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Version
2.0.14

Event Timeline

mortoray set Version to 2.0.14.Aug 5 2010, 11:05 AM
mortoray added projects: pinentry, Bug Report.
mortoray added a subscriber: mortoray.
• aheinecke added projects: Info Needed, gpg4win.Aug 12 2014, 8:50 PM
• aheinecke added a subscriber: • aheinecke.

pinentry-qt should have only been the default if you install a gpg4win version
that includes qt.

Could you execute pinetry-qt directly and enter "getpin" in the command line
window that opens?
What happens then?

• aheinecke claimed this task.Aug 12 2014, 8:50 PM
• aheinecke lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Normal.
• werner closed this task as Resolved.May 11 2015, 1:17 PM