I use pinentry-qt most of the time, but in the specific case that I'm using pass, I would like to use pinentry-curses because of the faster startup time.
Is there a way that I can configure pass to always call pinentry-curses, while keeping pinentry-qt the system default?
The system is Fedora with KDE.
This seems closely related but I don't know enough to apply it to pass: Change pinentry program temporarily with gpg-agent
Taking inspiration from the question you linked:
Create a wrapper script for pinentry (~/bin/pinentry-wrapper):
#!/usr/bin/env bash # # Defaults to Qt, with a choice of curses for selected programs # PINENTRY_USER_DATA is a GnuPG defined variable (see man gpg) case "$PINENTRY_USER_DATA" in curses) exec /usr/bin/pinentry-curses "$@" ;; *) exec /usr/bin/pinentry-qt "$@" ;; esac Make the script executable:
$ chmod u+x ~/bin/pinentry-wrapper Instruct GnuGP to use your version of pinentry (~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf):
pinentry-program /home/neftas/bin/pinentry-wrapper Restart the gpg-agent:
$ pkill -HUP gpg-agent Create a wrapper script for pass (~/bin/pass):
#!/usr/bin/env bash PINENTRY_USER_DATA=curses /usr/bin/pass "$@" Make executable:
$ chmod u+x ~/bin/pass Make sure ~/bin is searched first in your PATH (put this in your .bashrc):
$ export PATH="~/bin:$PATH" Check your work:
$ command -v pass /home/neftas/bin/pass All of these scripts were written on Arch Linux, so the locations may be different on your distro.
PINENTRY_USER_DATA=curses to my ~/.bashrc|.zshrc.