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pinentry-curses / pinentry-tty should emit a bell when showing a dialog
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In message <87mw012v9l.fsf@vigenere.g10code.de>
(https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2015-June/030014.html), Werner
nots that some people like to use pinentry-curses and force it use a particular
tty (inside of say screen). In this case, it would be nice if pinentry could
emit a Bell to alert the user of a pending interaction.

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rP Pinentry
rP1dba96fafa12 curses: Add option to beep or flash terminal on dialog.

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neal added projects: Feature Request, pinentry.Jun 16 2015, 1:09 PM
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marcus added a commit: rP1dba96fafa12: curses: Add option to beep or flash terminal on dialog..Jul 11 2017, 7:30 PM
marcus closed this task as Resolved.Jul 11 2017, 7:31 PM
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Done.

wltjr mentioned this in T3279: Release pinentry 1.1.0.Aug 3 2017, 6:36 PM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Sep 10 2018, 3:30 PM

Well, the counterpart in gpg-agent is missing.

dkg reopened this task as Open.Aug 20 2019, 2:36 AM
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reviewing this, i think the situation is:

  • pinentry can now accept a ttyalert option (which can take either beep or flash, but
  • it is set to nothing by default
  • gpg-agent never tries to set it, and has no way to set it

So i think this isn't really solved yet.

• gniibe closed this task as a duplicate of T4270: pinentry-curses should ring the terminal bell.Dec 5 2019, 7:08 AM