NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       pinentry-qt [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       pinentry-qt  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-qt implements a PIN entry dialog using the Qt tool kit, so it is especially suitable  for  users
       of  KDE.   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-qt 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-qt;  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-qt).

       --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-qt.  They are required because
              pinentry-qt  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-gnome3(1),  pinentry-fltk(1),  pinentry-gtk-2(1),  pinentry-tty(1), gpg(1),
       gpg-agent(1)

       The full documentation for pinentry-qt 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-QT(1)