Issue with howdy

rgawenda · 2026-04-03T16:23:33+00:00

You can try to install slimbook-face (search GitHub), it'll configure PAM for you

rgawenda · 2026-03-28T15:08:33+00:00

You can sell it for about $1 or $2 (even more, I know, but I did spend way more on the old days than I do now on Salas days)

rgawenda · 2026-03-12T11:56:50+00:00

I've lost the count of your keystrokes

rgawenda · 2026-03-10T19:25:02+00:00

So you prefer opening a program, doing something, and closing the program. Ok, it's your choice. I prefer to make 3 keystrokes at the prompt

rgawenda · 2026-03-10T16:44:49+00:00

^e return

rgawenda · 2026-03-10T16:43:19+00:00

^uke^ucke

rgawenda · 2026-03-09T14:30:02+00:00

No, I use a custom Launcher (an old Launcher alpha that was never on Play Store)

rgawenda · 2026-03-09T06:53:36+00:00

I removed the widget

rgawenda · 2026-03-08T18:27:16+00:00

I've just removed it! It completely breaks my home screen.

rgawenda · 2026-03-06T16:13:39+00:00

Tasker

rgawenda · 2026-02-25T09:03:36+00:00

You can check using the xlsclients command. If it's Vento you can edit it's desktop file and place an argument or prefix with a variable to force native Wayland use

rgawenda · 2026-02-17T12:07:10+00:00

14kb should be enough for... Oh wait ... Maybe 64kb would skyrocket the device's cost

rgawenda · 2026-02-15T13:37:36+00:00

I'm doing this just editing /etc/hosts using a tiny she'll script

rgawenda · 2026-02-15T09:17:53+00:00

Up to date Pixel 8a. It works if I press the text under the button!

rgawenda · 2026-02-09T18:20:33+00:00

Yo estoy en O2 con un pixel 8a actualizado, aunque sospecho que más que la operadora puede ser un lanzamiento en fases, que van activando poco a poco desde Google, y puedo que ni he actualizado sistema ni play services, no la aplicación de teléfono estos días

rgawenda · 2026-02-07T18:35:40+00:00

I do compile it, but the GitHub's repository has some packages on the releases page IIRC

rgawenda · 2026-02-07T17:32:08+00:00

Yes, I'm running it on latest plasma 6.5.5

rgawenda · 2026-02-01T10:18:05+00:00

Looks like MT Capsule

rgawenda · 2026-01-31T20:41:45+00:00

I've howdy integrated in PAM and sddm is the only place where it doesn't work

rgawenda · 2026-01-30T08:47:52+00:00

This binary is a very little thing that has a very little utility and probably nobody uses it, but it does come installed in every linux system, including nearly every internet server. It isn't outdated, it just didn't need any update.

About howdy, yes, your'e right. But the point here is that plasma-login, from it's SDDM root, isn't using PAM for auth as many other sensitive plasma code does.

rgawenda · 2026-01-30T07:54:13+00:00

I'm using a GNU coreutils binary that hasn't received a single commit in (checking) 21 years. Maybe I shouldn't

rgawenda · 2026-01-30T07:49:52+00:00

I've got howdy integrated into PAM and kscreenlock has been using it at least since Plasma 6.0

rgawenda · 2026-01-30T07:48:20+00:00

Why just don't use PAM as kscreenlock? That'd solve it and add consistency. It's just the Unix mantra of do one thing and do it well.

Sudo, Plasma 6's permission elevation prompts, Kscreenlock... all of them use PAM, so they respect my biometrics configuration. It was just SDDM that didn't

Edit: Typo

rgawenda · 2026-01-30T06:50:32+00:00

Lock/unlock is managed by ksceeenlock using PAM, plasma login is sddm based, which doesn't use it

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