[QUESTION] How to change gnugpg default folder location? Correct "NIX" way?

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Hi fellow nixers,
I’ve normally used this, which doesnt work correctly
export GNUPGHOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/gnupg"

I guess this is not the nix way but I didn’t find relevant options for it

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=gnupg

Now with this setting when I use like rofi-pass, I get Xsession gnupg error related to key not found.

Well it gets fixed by copying gnupg folder to $HOME/.gnupg but this feels weird. Is there some settings dominating in background and causing this kind of behaviour?

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Not sure if this is the issue but note that when GNUPGHOME environment variable is set (for example when I want to use ~/.local/share/gnupg instead of it polluting my home directory) the socket path also changes, so the one registered by systemd will not be used. I am working around it using by overriding the socket path.

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Thanks, thats actually way more complicated than I expected. Didn’t find out how to fix it after reading the thread, but I might let .gnupg pollute my home folder when using nixos.

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This has nothing to do with nix(os). gnupg will use the non-default socket when not stored in $HOME/.gnupg everywhere. Hopefully they’ll see the light and become XDG compliant but I recall reading somewhere that since it’s used on a range of OSes, there’s no incentive to deviate from the gnupg standard for the purpose of linux.