The default behavior of Crostini’s Debian Stretch container is to use a curses-based pinentry. This behaves strangely, in two different ways:

1. Inherently, it shows the semi-graphical pinentry dialog in the terminal that has last called gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye. You can do this in .bashrc or similar, but if your habit is (like mine) to run many different terminals at once, you would need to call this whenever focus changes — otherwise the pinentry dialog will invariably co …

The VPN setup pages in Chrome OS appear to support OpenVPN. ProtonVPN also supports OpenVPN connections, and configuration files are available for download. However, it turns out that OpenVPN doesn’t actually work with Chromebooks quite as easily as it should — long discussions are easily found, solutions not so much. One of the main issues is that the visual configuration dialogs don’t support all the opti …