> > So there are two problems: > > > > a) why does pinentry-gtk2 get stuck? > > b) why isn't pinentry-qt4 called by gpg-protect-tool? > > It's a gnupg2 bug, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548528 I can confirm that adding "keep-display" to gpg-agent.conf as mentioned in the bugzilla comments fixes my problem. pinentry-qt4 is called and works fine. Cheers, Andreas