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.

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).