ronnypfannschmidt/howdy-beta

Description

Unofficial builds of Howdy beta.

Installation Instructions

Note: This is a temporary fork of principis/howdy-beta. It contains some AI-assisted workarounds (particularly for authselect integration) that are subject to removal once proper upstream solutions are found.

Installation

Enable and install howdy:

sudo dnf copr enable ronnypfannschmidt/howdy-beta
sudo dnf install howdy howdy-gtk

For Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (immutable systems)

Enable the COPR repository:

sudo dnf copr enable ronnypfannschmidt/howdy-beta

Force refresh repository metadata and install:

sudo rpm-ostree refresh-md --force
sudo rpm-ostree install howdy howdy-gtk howdy-authselect
systemctl reboot

After reboot, enable howdy authentication:

sudo howdy-authselect enable

This automatically configures PAM via authselect and persists across authselect select operations.

Camera Configuration

1. Find your IR camera: ls /dev/video*
2. Edit config: sudo howdy config
3. Set device_path to your IR camera (e.g., /dev/video2)
4. Test: howdy test
5. Add your face: sudo howdy add

What's Included

This fork includes:

• howdy-authselect: Seamless authselect integration for Silverblue/Kinoite
• SELinux policy fixes: Proper SELinux support out of the box
• udev rules: Correct device permissions

Migrating from principis/howdy

sudo dnf copr disable principis/howdy
sudo dnf copr disable principis/howdy-beta
sudo dnf copr enable ronnypfannschmidt/howdy-beta
sudo dnf distro-sync

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 41	aarch64 (95)*, ppc64le (93)*, s390x (62)*, x86_64 (203)*	Fedora 41 (0 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (76)*, ppc64le (115)*, s390x (84)*, x86_64 (2015)*	Fedora 42 (182 downloads)
Fedora 43	aarch64 (150)*, ppc64le (67)*, s390x (75)*, x86_64 (14278)*	Fedora 43 (1514 downloads)
Fedora 44	aarch64 (24)*, ppc64le (23)*, s390x (19)*, x86_64 (191)*	Fedora 44 (15 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (78)*, ppc64le (94)*, s390x (68)*, x86_64 (133)*	Fedora rawhide (19 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.