boltgolt
Question: Is it possible for Howdy to have a timeout after locking period or use additional confirmation for lock?
Hi there,
First of all Howdy is an amazing tool and I love it. I started using it on my laptop and loved it so much I bought a Hello compatible camera for my desktop as well.
First some info about my setup:
Howdy 3.0.0 BETA Fedora 41 w/ KDE (pretty standard setup) Installed Howdy from copr (beta)
My question/issue:
When locking the screen by Meta+L, kscreensaver appears but howdy immediately activates and unlocks. Since the detection is fast, when I lock my desktop machine, it unlocks before I leave my desk.
Any ideas on how to adjust the setup so this doesn't happen?
I've tried:
- playing with the order of auth methods in
/etc/pam.d/kde, didn't help - looking into kscreensaver settings to see if there is some way to have a button before unlock (or a key combo)
Thanks in advance.
Same issue on CachyOS 6.15.3-3 KDE Plasma (Wayland). Locking is the only workflow that doesn't behave properly for me. Howdy will immediately try to unlock after I lock it, which usually leads to a failure, so when I come back I have to input a blank password to fail for howdy to try to auth again.
Ubuntu 25.04, KDE Plasma 6.3.4. Also seeing this. Was working fine under Ubuntu 24.04.
This seems to be a KDE lock screen issue (at least what I'm dealing with). I've stumbled onto KDE Bug 500694 Fingerprint reader cannot be used to log in after 30 second which links to a workaround fix. Please read and understand what the workaround is before applying it.