pinentry-dmenu

pinentry-dmenu is a pinentry program with the charm of dmenu.

This program is a fork from dmenu-pinentry which is a fork from spine which is also a fork from dmenu.

Requirements

In order to build dmenu-pinentry you need the Xlib, and libconfig header files.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dmenu is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dmenu (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Config

To use pinentry-dmenu add in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

pinentry-program <absolut path to pinentry-dmenu>

The config is located in ~/.gnupg/pinentry-dmenu.conf.

Parameter | Default | Description :------------------ |:----------------- |:----------- asterisk | * | Defines the symbol which is showed for each typed character bottom | false | pinentry-dmenu appears at the bottom of the screen min_password_length | 32 | The minimal space of the password field. This value has affect to the description field after the password field monitor | -1 | pinentry-dmenu is displayed on the monitor number supplied. Monitor numbers are starting from 0 prompt | "" | Defines the prompt to be displayed to the left of the input field font | monospace:size=10 | Defines the font or font set used prompt_bg | #bbbbbb | Defines the prompt background color prompt_fg | #222222 | Defines the prompt foreground color normal_bg | #bbbbbb | Defines the normal background color normal_fg | #222222 | Defines the normal foreground color select_bg | #eeeeee | Defines the selected background color select_fg | #005577 | Defines the selected foreground color desc_bg | #bbbbbb | Defines the description background color desc_fg | #222222 | Defines the description foreground color embedded | false | Embed into window

Example

asterisk= "# ";
prompt = "$";
font = "Noto Sans UI:size=13";
prompt_fg = "#eeeeee";
prompt_bg = "#d9904a";
normal_fg = "#ffffff";
normal_bg = "#000000";
select_fg = "#eeeeee";
select_bg = "#d9904a";
desc_fg = "#eeeeee";
desc_bg = "#d9904a";