How to show desktop automatically when PAM success on Ubuntu? about howdy HOT 8 CLOSED

If you could give me a hint, I'll gladly submit a pull request

from howdy.

Sorry for not replying, i was looking for a semi-reliable way to dismiss the lockscreen. The branch i just merged should add this if you flip the right config option to true.

from howdy.

Hi! Thanks for fast reply. I've tested the code with variable set to true. It's not working for me, more precisely I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with gdm.

Thanks.

from howdy.

What happens if you run sudo loginctl lock-sessions --no-ask-password && sleep 10 && sudo timeout 1 loginctl unlock-sessions --no-ask-password? For me this locks the screen, runs howdy and dismisses the lockscreen after 10 seconds.

from howdy.

If I run it in a new terminal it simply run howdy (because of sudo in the command), identify my face and then a fast blink in the screen happens, nothing else. If I run the command again, then it don't run howdy (because already identified), lock the screen and after 10 seconds unlock the screen.

from howdy.

That's weird, that it does actually work when using the command in a shell. Are you 100% sure that it is enabled in the right config file?

from howdy.

Sorry, your command is working ok, the fast blink is because already enabled dismiss option on config, so right after sudo loginctl lock-sessions --no-ask-password and howdy identifies me, sudo timeout 1 loginctl unlock-sessions --no-ask-password executes.

It's weird that it's not working when I reboot the pc, maybe longer timeout?

from howdy.

I'm not 100% sure why it fails sometimes, and i can't reproduce the fail conditions after i have one. It's a bit temperamental. I've marked it as experimental in the config and it should be seen as such for now.

If you do see some pattern in the failures, please let me know.

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