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Pinentry: Cannot paste a passphrase into the textfield with middle mouse button.
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Debian Squeeze, pinentry-qt4 or pinenetry-gtk-2 0.8.1

Open a pinentry, select a text in a different window, try to paste the text with
the middle mouse button into the pinentry...Failed, nothing is pasted.

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Version
0.8.1

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ludwig set Version to 0.8.1.
ludwig added a subscriber: ludwig.

strange thing is that this works with pinentry-qt

This is on purpose for the GTK version. The authors of the Qt version obviously
think that this is not important.

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For the record. This is now optional in pinentry 0.8.4 you can pass
--enable-pinentry-qt4-clipboard to configure to enable clipboard and paste support.