KeePassXC Secrets Service
Since the update to (K)ubuntu “focal fossa”, the GPG pinentry dialog behaves a bit differently. When encrypting or signing emails, or when signing git commits, the keyboard input for the whole desktop used to be blocked, but still allowed mouse input. Fetching the password for a GPG key from a personal KeePassXC database was thus still possible. I could not use shortcuts, but oh well — at least I don’t need to remember the password. However since the update now, mouse input is blocked as well. Only the OK and Cancel buttons, as well as the text input field remain responsive, and nothing else. This has proven to be pretty annoying. While searching for a solution, I found a very nice way to automatically unlock my GPG key, without even copying the password into the clipboard. This is in reference to KeePassXC’s libsecret integration. A drawback of this libsecret solution is that there is no authentication or verification whithin this API . If you however trust the software you have installed and you are somewhat lazy, then this is a pretty nice way of managing secrets, while at th