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I want to use gpg-agent (and its gpg.conf and gpg-agent.conf files) when I invoke gpg (from Enigmail or otherwise) but Ubuntu 12.04 uses seahorse as the default 'agent.' While seahorse may or may not read these conf files, how can I force gpg to bypass Ubuntu's setup and use gpg-agent?

This is what I see when I ask the terminal to return $GNU_AGENT_INFO: 

user@user:~$ echo $GNU_AGENT_INFO  
/tmp/keyring-xxxxxx/gpg:0:1

Following the gpg man page, I have tried adding the following lines to my gpg.conf file without desired result: 

--gpg-agent-info=/usr/bin/gpg-agent  
--gpg-agent-info=/usr/bin/gpg-agent:0:1

Thanks.

PS: In addition, does seahorse use equivalent files of the same path and name (gpg.conf, gpg-agent.conf)? If not, what are the paths and names I could use to reach equivalent result?

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As per this answer: 

sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop.disabled

This worked for me on Ubuntu 13.04. It disables the gpg part of gnome keyring.

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