gpa(1)

💖 gpa — bestie's guide to the GNU Privacy Assistant 💖

okay so. gpa is section 1 of the User Commands manual, and it's literally the glow-up GnuPG deserved. sit down, grab a boba, we're doing this 🧋✨

✨ 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). yes bestie, it's the pretty face on top of all that cryptography 💅

gpa can be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign files, to verify signatures and to manage the private and public keys. that's the whole vibe — lock it, unlock it, sign it, check it, and keep your keyring cute and organized 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c, --clipboard — opens the clipboard. this is the default action if no arguments are given and a key has already been created. no key yet? then it's not gonna be the default, bestie, sorry 😭
• -C, --card — starts you off with the card-manager already open 🎀
• -d, --daemon — only starts the UI server and no user interface. server mode only, no windows, no drama 🫥
• --no-remote — do not connect to a running instance, start a brand new one instead. this can also be used to not start a UI server. main character energy: fresh start, no sharing 🔥
• --debug-edit-fsm — debugs the Finite State Machine (FSM). yes, the FSM. it's giving debugging, periodt 🐛
• --disable-ticker — disables the ticker used for card operations. bye ticker 👋
• --disable-x509 — disables support for X.509. not your era, not your problem 💀
• --enable-logging — enables logging on Win32 systems. windows girlies, this one's for you 🪟
• -f, --files — starts with the file-manager open. this is the default if one or more FILE(S) are added to the command arguments 📁
• -k, --keyring — starts with the keyring editor. this is the default for a new installation 🌱
• -o, --options=FILE — reads options from the specified file instead of ~/.gnupg/gpa.conf. custom config, custom queen 👑
• -s, --settings — opens the settings dialog ⚙️
• -v, --version — prints version information and exits. quick lil info drop, then gone ✌️
• --help-gtk — prints options related to GTK. see also gtk-options(7). 🎨
• -?, --help, --help-all — prints usage information and exits. when in doubt, ask for help, bestie 🙋

🌈 FILES 🌈

• ~/.gnupg/gpa.conf — the standard user configuration file, read by gpa on startup. this is where your settings live, protect it 🏠
• ~/.gnupg/S.uiserver — socket listening for commands to the UI server. it's the lil hotline the UI server picks up on 📞

😭 BUGS 😭

found a bug? please report bugs to http://bugs.gnupg.org/. don't suffer in silence, we listen 🫶

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

gpa was mainly written by Bernhard Herzog, Marcus Brinkmann, Miguel Coca, and Werner Koch. absolute icons, every single one 💜 see the help menu and http://gitstats.gnupg.org/gpa/authors.html for a detailed list — full credits, no gatekeeping.

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). slay, and thanks for the docs 🫡

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

gpg(1), gpg2(1), gpgconf(1), gpgsm(1), gtk-options(7) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! you just read gpa(1) from the User Commands manual — that's the manual section and the name, all folded in nice and tidy, because apparently the manpage didn't feel like giving us a version number or a date, and honestly? relatable, mysterious, iconic 🙈 stay encrypted, stay gorgeous, mwah 💋💖