Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

[Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>]

green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> writes:

> Rob Owens wrote at 2013-07-04 18:05 -0500:
>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 01:19:37PM -0700, Richard Lawrence wrote:
>> > Thanks!  Alas, it didn't turn out to be quite this simple.  I had to
>> > invoke gpg-agent from my .bash_profile:
>>
>> I didn't have to go through all that, but I have used seahorse in the
>> past -- perhaps that automatically set up a gpg agent for me?
>
> Simply adding use-agent to gpg.conf worked for me, if I remember
> correctly.  I looked for a reference to GPG in those places but found
> nothing.
>
> I too have used seahorse in the past, but… probably not related?

It didn't work for me.  I didn't have any gpg-agent process running.

Perhaps this is related to Seahorse: I don't use GNOME, or any other
desktop.  (I just start X manually and use a tiling window manager.)  

-- 
Best,
Richard