Excerpt from Randy's message of 2012-06-23T00:02-0400: > What I ended up doing was per the Arch wiki. Creating the > file /etc/profile.d/gpg-agent.sh with the following: > > /#!/bin/sh > > envfile="${HOME}/.gnupg/gpg-agent.env" > if test -f "$envfile" && kill -0 $(grep GPG_AGENT_INFO "$envfile" | > cut -d: -f 2) 2>/dev/null; then eval "$(cat "$envfile")" > else > eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --write-env-file "$envfile")" > fi > export GPG_AGENT_INFO # the env file does not contain the export > statement/ > > This did the trick for me. I applied your trick: it also works on Xfce.