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).

SEE ALSO
gpg(1), gpg2(1), gpgconf(1), gpgsm(1), gtk-options(7)