gpa(1) graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard

SYNOPSIS

gpa [OPTION(S)] [FILE(S)]

DESCRIPTION

The GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).

gpa can be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign files, to verify signatures and to manage the private and public keys.

OPTIONS

-c, --clipboard
Open the clipboard. This is the default action if no arguments are given and a key has already been created.
-C, --card
Start with the card-manager open.
-d, --daemon
Only start the UI server and no user interface.
--no-remote
Do not connect to a running instance but start a new one. This can also be used to not start an UI server.
--debug-edit-fsm
Debug the Finite State Machine (FSM).
--disable-ticker
Disable ticker used for card operations.
--disable-x509
Disable support for X.509.
--enable-logging
Enable logging on Win32 systems.
-f, --files
Start with the file-manager open. This is the default if one or more FILE(S) are added to the command arguments.
-k, --keyring
Start with the keyring editor. This is the default for a new installation.
-o, --options=FILE
Read options from the specified file instead of ~/.gnupg/gpa.conf.
-s, --settings
Open the settings dialog.
-v, --version
Print version information and exit.
--help-gtk
Print options related to GTK. See also gtk-options(7).
-?, --help, --help-all
Print usage information and exit.

FILES

~/.gnupg/gpa.conf
Standard user configuration file read by gpa on startup.
~/.gnupg/S.uiserver
Socket listening for commands to the UI server.

BUGS

Please report bugs to http://bugs.gnupg.org/.

AUTHORS

gpa was mainly written by Bernhard Herzog, Marcus Brinkmann, Miguel Coca, and Werner Koch. See the help menu and http://gitstats.gnupg.org/gpa/authors.html for a detailed list.

This manual page was written by Arthur de Jong <[email protected]> and Daniel Leidert <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).