Maybe I don’t understand the problem but the only time that pinentry pops up for me is when I am signing something. What sort of situations does it just randomly pop up or what sort of specific apps/configuration would that happen at random?
One time this happens to me is with duplicity. There’s always some delay between starting a backup and being asked for the key. It’s probably something that should be improved in duplicity itself though…
I have some timed services using gopass to get credentials for, among other things, mbsync and vdirsyncer. These run on a user cron job, and they need a password to decrypt the credentials. The credentials are cached, but the cache is cleared every couple of hours, and if the screen locks.
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