Is there any program to get the GPG password from the GUI

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I am working about a GUI PGP application with Zenity. GPG asks passphrase on terminal screen. But I want to enter passphrase from a GUI dialog box not in terminal (like zenity --password) I tried piping gpg -c <file_name> with Zenity command but not working. Is there any solution for this or another program feature? I know Kleopatra, GPA and seahorse by the way.

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See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60213/gpg-asks-for-password-even-with-passphrase -- somewhat different Q but several As are about piping the passphrase into gpg — dave_thompson_085, Feb 24 '17 at 09:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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Thanks dave_thompson_085. I tried echo "123" | gpg --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --cipher-algo AES256 -c $FILE and it works.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Feb 24 '17 at 18:02

astronaut_cat

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '23 at 11:03

For those who are still struggling:

You can change the pinentry-mode (~/.gnupg/gpg.conf) to ask and you'll always get the GUI prompt to enter the password (unless the passphrase is saved).

This is useful for various IDEs like Intellij.

Config file entry:

# your previous options
pinentry-mode ask

Is there any program to get the GPG password from the GUI

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