Issues

• IPU6 IR camera (OV9234, ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11) working with illuminator + liveness — reference implementation

  boltgolt/howdy#1155 · Filter by author carboniste-it opened on Oct 19, 2026

• Feature request: GUI for facial recognition enrollment

  boltgolt/howdy#1154 · Filter by author EgorKompaniets opened on Oct 17, 2026
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• [Feature Request] Send Pam Message when initial facescan is triggered

  boltgolt/howdy#1153 · Filter by author aarushth opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Build face models from several frames instead of the first detected face

  boltgolt/howdy#1144 · Filter by author shawnlopresto opened on Oct 7, 2026

• howdy add ignores the exposure setting, so models are enrolled under auto exposure

  boltgolt/howdy#1142 · Filter by author shawnlopresto opened on Oct 7, 2026

• Peek-a-bangs (Emo Bangs or Bangs Covering One Eye) Hairstyle Issue

  boltgolt/howdy#1139 · Filter by author faoiteph opened on Aug 25, 2026
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• Kubuntu 26.04 Discover Store Authentification error

  boltgolt/howdy#1138 · Filter by author Blauhasenpopo opened on Aug 15, 2026
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• howdy test crashes with NumPy 2.x due to scalar indexing

  boltgolt/howdy#1136 · Filter by author mdj2812 opened on Aug 10, 2026

• [Guide] Installation for Fedora 44

  boltgolt/howdy#1135 · Filter by author GiorgioUrbani opened on Aug 2, 2026
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• Howdy not working on Pop os (cosmic) login screen, and cant disable it either.

  boltgolt/howdy#1134 · Filter by author CrispyDairy opened on Jul 29, 2026

• Persistent secure daemon to reduce per-auth startup latency.

  boltgolt/howdy#1132 · Filter by author Phant0m1zed opened on Jul 21, 2026

• Face detection timeout uses wall-clock time, breaks after suspend/resume clock jumps

  boltgolt/howdy#1131 · Filter by author Ludecan opened on Jul 21, 2026

• README: "Building from source" apt-get example is missing meson and ninja-build

  boltgolt/howdy#1130 · Filter by author caffentrager opened on Jul 19, 2026

• ScreenLocker was blocked because only root can read

  boltgolt/howdy#1126 · Filter by author Likeyumi opened on Jul 10, 2026

• ffmpeg backend crashes in ffmpeg_reader.py with ValueError

  boltgolt/howdy#1121 · Filter by author kyonmiriam opened on Jun 11, 2026
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• Face auth fails at GDM login/lock screen on SELinux-enforcing systems: denied { map } on /dev/video* under xdm_t ("not possible to open camera")

  boltgolt/howdy#1117 · Filter by author martinmadisor-cyber opened on Jun 3, 2026

• Integrate with the TPM

  boltgolt/howdy#1115 · Filter by author giggio opened on May 31, 2026
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• Error with installing

  boltgolt/howdy#1114 · Filter by author oprelo opened on May 25, 2026
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• [Guide] Final Solution for ThinkPad X1 Nano IR Camera & Howdy on Ubuntu 24.04 (Linux Mint 22)

  boltgolt/howdy#1113 · Filter by author Mandarinzs opened on May 19, 2026

• [v3.0 Beta] pam_howdy.so segfaults / core dumps on Linux Mint, resolved by using pam_exec with compare.py

  boltgolt/howdy#1112 · Filter by author nikcola16-bit opened on May 16, 2026

• [Bug] Python 3 compatibility: ConfigParser AttributeError and datetime.utcnow() DeprecationWarning (v2.6.1)

  boltgolt/howdy#1111 · Filter by author AKRiLLiCK opened on May 12, 2026
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• Hardware note: IR emitter on ASUS laptops with Sonix 3277:0018 is motion-reactive — linux-enable-ir-emitter is not needed (and may hang the system)

  boltgolt/howdy#1109 · Filter by author jatroconis opened on May 8, 2026

• Support for newer Kubuntu releases

  boltgolt/howdy#1105 · Filter by author sandkn opened on Apr 24, 2026
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• Ubuntu 26.04 / gnome 50 authentication issue.

  boltgolt/howdy#1104 · Filter by author eirinn1975 opened on Apr 24, 2026
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• Howdy not working on Ubuntu 24 LTS Howdy version 3.0.0 BETA

  boltgolt/howdy#1102 · Filter by author Notu3 opened on Apr 19, 2026
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