NAME

       gpa - graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard

SYNOPSIS

       gpa [OPTION(S)] [FILE(S)]

DESCRIPTION

       The GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).

       gpa  can  be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign files, to verify signatures and to manage the private and
       public keys.

OPTIONS

       -c, --clipboard
              Open the clipboard.  This is the default action if no arguments are given and a  key  has  already
              been created.

       -C, --card
              Start with the card-manager open.

       -d, --daemon
              Only start the UI server and no user interface.

       --no-remote
              Do  not  connect to a running instance but start a new one.  This can also be used to not start an
              UI server.

       --debug-edit-fsm
              Debug the Finite State Machine (FSM).

       --disable-ticker
              Disable ticker used for card operations.

       --disable-x509
              Disable support for X.509.

       --enable-logging
              Enable logging on Win32 systems.

       -f, --files
              Start with the file-manager open. This is the default if one or more  FILE(S)  are  added  to  the
              command arguments.

       -k, --keyring
              Start with the keyring editor. This is the default for a new installation.

       -o, --options=FILE
              Read options from the specified file instead of ~/.gnupg/gpa.conf.

       -s, --settings
              Open the settings dialog.

       -v, --version
              Print version information and exit.

       --help-gtk
              Print options related to GTK. See also gtk-options(7).

       -?, --help, --help-all
              Print usage information and exit.

FILES

       ~/.gnupg/gpa.conf
              Standard user configuration file read by gpa on startup.

       ~/.gnupg/S.uiserver
              Socket listening for commands to the UI server.

BUGS

       Please report bugs to http://bugs.gnupg.org/.

AUTHORS

       gpa  was mainly written by Bernhard Herzog, Marcus Brinkmann, Miguel Coca, and Werner Koch.  See the help
       menu and http://gitstats.gnupg.org/gpa/authors.html for a detailed list.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by   Arthur   de   Jong   <adejong@debian.org>   and   Daniel   Leidert
       <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       gpg(1), gpg2(1), gpgconf(1), gpgsm(1), gtk-options(7)

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