#1060053 RFP: wayprompt -- multi-purpose (password-)prompt tool for Wayland

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Piotr Ożarowski
Date:
2025-11-29 16:54:15 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1060053#5
Date:
2024-01-05 11:02:20 UTC
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* Package name    : wayprompt
  Version         : 0.0.0
  Upstream Contact: Leon Plickat <leonhenrik.plickat@stud.uni-goettingen.de>
* URL             :
* License         : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: Zig
  Description     : multi-purpose (password-)prompt tool for Wayland

WayPrompt also has a TUI fallback mode for when no Wayland connection
can be established, like when invoked while using a TTY.

Installs multiple executables:
 • wayprompt: CLI prompt tool
 • pinentry-wayprompt: drop-in PinEntry replacement, for example for GPG

All executables use the same configuration file.


Note that this project is written in Zig which is not packaged for Debian yet,
I didn't find any other PinEntry replacement for Wayland.
#1060053#12
Date:
2024-01-22 19:54:55 UTC
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On 2024-01-05 12:02:20, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:

[...]

Interesting project! Too bad we don't have Zig yet (or, maybe, that this
one is written in Zig...)

that said, i'm not sure what you mean by "for Wayland". I'm currently
using pinentry-qt and it works in Wayland. pinentry-gnome3 is also
packaged and works.

Neither of those properly grabs the keyboard in Sway, that said, but I
suspect this is probably an interoperability issue more than anything
else.

a.