gpa

gpa(1) User Commands gpa(1)

NAME

   gpa - 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 <adejong@debian.org> and Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).