I don't know about pinentry but emacs freezes sound familiar. Have you tried using the workaround given in following site: https://omecha.info/blog/org-capture-freezes-emacs.html
Timo On Sun, Dec 8, 2019, at 17:27, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Dear list, > > > I've been using mu4e to read email, and the passwords are read using > gpg2 and the gpg-agent (both 2.2.12). Nowadays I use emacs running in a > terminal (somehow any graphical emacs keeps to freeze randomly when I > use mu4e together with the org-capture feature; terminal emacs just > works). Until recently I used to ssh -X to my box to read email (and > used a graphical window to enter my passphrase), but now I would like to > use mosh instead (so that hibernating and waking up my notebook does not > interrupt the connection). But as mosh cannot be used for X forwarding, > I need to use a non-graphical means of entering a passphrase to > gpg-agent. On linux, I believe, there is a pinentry-tty program, but > that one is not available on OpenBSD. Also I found mentions of > pinentry-emacs. I tried to install the elpa pinentry package, added > allow-emacs-pinentry to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf, but whatever I tried, I > don't see any sign that it ever does something. There is also a > pinentry-ncurses program available on OpenBSD, but that one seems to not > play well with my emacs; I see some prompt in emacs, but I cannot enter > the needed information. Can anybody help me to get some way to enter a > passphrase to be relayed to gpg-agent inside emacs running in a > terminal? > > I am using emacs 26.3 on OpenBSD 6.6. > > > Thanks for any comments! > > Rudolf Sykora > >
