diff --git a/plugins/gpg-agent/gpg-agent.plugin.zsh b/plugins/gpg-agent/gpg-agent.plugin.zsh
index 69e239cc..6a94f598 100644
--- a/plugins/gpg-agent/gpg-agent.plugin.zsh
+++ b/plugins/gpg-agent/gpg-agent.plugin.zsh
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
-# Enable gpg-agent if it is not running
-GPG_AGENT_SOCKET="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"
-if [ ! -S $GPG_AGENT_SOCKET ]; then
-  gpg-agent --daemon >/dev/null 2>&1
-  export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
-fi
+# Enable gpg-agent if it is not running-
+# --use-standard-socket will work from version 2 upwards
 
-# Set SSH to use gpg-agent if it is configured to do so
-GNUPGCONFIG="${GNUPGHOME:-"$HOME/.gnupg"}/gpg-agent.conf"
-if [ -r "$GNUPGCONFIG" ] && grep -q enable-ssh-support "$GNUPGCONFIG"; then
+AGENT_SOCK=`gpgconf --list-dirs | grep agent-socket | cut -d : -f 2`
+
+if [ ! -S ${AGENT_SOCK} ]; then
+  gpg-agent --daemon --use-standard-socket >/dev/null 2>&1
+fi
+export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
+
+# Set SSH to use gpg-agent if it's enabled
+if [ -S "${AGENT_SOCK}.ssh" ]; then
+  export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${AGENT_SOCK}.ssh"
   unset SSH_AGENT_PID
-  export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$GPG_AGENT_SOCKET
 fi