Maxime Dirksen

> My problem is I never see polkit. My webcam is active (flash is active) but I don't see any popup (by default polkit open a popup). And until I...

I can confirm that this is not due to SELinux. Then I investigated a bit, and it appears that when authenticating with polkit, it "spam" the authentication request and kill...

I continued my tests and the problem is not that polkit is "impatient"; if I execute in the Howdy's pam script (pam.py) a simple "sleep 4" using a shell subprocess,...

I found a fix (or rather a trick). I opened a PR to discuss #687

> The reason Howdy uses /by-path is that these paths are consistent during reboot. Using a videoX device does not guarantee that that specific hardware will be used on the...

> But the problem is that on my computer there is no simink in /dev/v4l/by-path That was due to the boot service of linux-enable-ir-emitter, I will fix that

Let me know if I can do something else for this PR (don't worry if you haven't had time to look yet)

@principis What do you think of that?

Yes, just change the line 44 of `/lib64/security/howdy/pam.py` with this one : ```python status = subprocess.call(["/usr/bin/python3 " + os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + "/compare.py " + pamh.get_user() + " &> /dev/null"], shell=True) ```

Maybe, try to use the GUI software installer ? Manjaro's is by far the best I've tested. You may have to activate AUR first ([FOSS Linux tuto link](https://www.fosslinux.com/4278/what-is-aur-and-how-to-enable-it-in-manjaro.htm#:~:text=To%20enable%20AUR,%20open%20%E2%80%9CAdd,Select%20%E2%80%9CPreferences.%E2%80%9D&text=Click%20the%20%E2%80%9CAUR%E2%80%9D%20tab.,be%20able%20to%20get%20updates.))