NAME

       pinentry-fltk - PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

SYNOPSIS

       pinentry-fltk [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       pinentry-fltk  is a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases.  That means it tries to
       take care that the entered information 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-fltk  implements  a  PIN  entry  dialog  using  the  Fast  Light  Tool Kit version 1.3, so it is
       especially suitable for users of GNOME.  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-fltk 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 currently 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-fltk; otherwise 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-fltk).

       --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 pinentry.

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

SEE ALSO

       pinentry-curses(1), pinentry-gtk-2(1), pinentry-qt(1), pinentry-gnome3(1), pinentry-tty(1), gpg(1),  gpg-
       agent(1)

       The  full documentation for pinentry-fltk 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 Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.

                                                   27 Jan 2005                                  PINENTRY-FLTK(1)