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PINENTRY-GNOME3(1)					    PINENTRY-GNOME3(1)

NAME
       pinentry-gnome3 - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

SYNOPSIS
       pinentry-gnome3 [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION
       pinentry-gnome3	is  a  program that allows for secure entry of PINs or
       pass phrases.  That means it tries to take care that the entered infor‐
       mation  is  not	swapped	 to disk or temporarily stored anywhere.  This
       functionality is particularly useful for	 entering  pass	 phrases  when
       using  encryption  software  such  as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the
       same.  It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular
       software.

       pinentry-gnome3	implements  a PIN entry dialog based on GNOME 3, which
       aims to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines as closely as  pos‐
       sible.	If the X Window System is not active then an alternative text-
       mode dialog will be used.  There are other flavors that	implement  PIN
       entry dialogs using other tool kits.

       pinentry-gnome3 is typically used internally by gpg-agent.  Users don't
       normally have a reason to call it directly.

OPTIONS
       --version
	      Print the program version and licensing information.

       --help Print a usage message summarizing the most  useful  command-line
	      options.

       --debug, -d
	      Turn  on	some  debugging.   Mostly  useful for the maintainers.
	      Note that this may reveal sensitive information like the entered
	      pass phrase.

       --enhanced, -e
	      Ask  for	timeouts  and  insurance, too.	Note that this is cur‐
	      rently not fully supported.

       --no-global-grab, -g
	      Grab the keyboard only when the window  is  focused.   Use  this
	      option if you are debugging software using pinentry-gnome3; oth‐
	      erwise you may not be able to to access your X  session  anymore
	      (unless  you  have other means to connect to the machine to kill
	      pinentry-gnome3).

       --parent-wid N
	      Use window ID N as the parent window for positioning the window.
	      Note,  that this is not fully supported by all flavors of pinen‐
	      try.

       --display STRING, --ttyname STRING, --ttytype STRING, --lc-type STRING,
       --lc-messages STRING
	      These  options  are  used	 to  pass  localization information to
	      pinentry-gnome3.	They are required because  pinentry-gnome3  is
	      usually  called  by  some background process which does not have
	      any information on the locale and terminal to use.  Assuan  pro‐
	      tocol options are an alternative way to pass these information.

SEE ALSO
       pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-tty(1),
       gpg(1), gpg-agent(1)

       The full documentation for pinentry-gnome3 is maintained as  a  Texinfo
       manual.	If the pinentry-doc package is installed, the command

	      info pinentry

       should give you access to the complete manual.

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was	written	 by Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the Debian
       project, adapted from other pinentry  manual  pages  written  by	 Peter
       Eisentraut.

				  01 Jun 2015		    PINENTRY-GNOME3(1)
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