Face recognition screen locker for Cinnamon. That simple script will use your web-cam to recognise your face and unlock screen when you are in front of the webcam. Or lock your screen when you are away for 3 seconds.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.
- Python 3.7 🐍 (3.5 must be ok as well, but not tested)
- Webcam
- First of all you need to clone the project
git clone https://github.com/Ignisor/face-screenlock.git - It's recommended to create and use virtual environment
- Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt - Plug in your web cam
- Put your photo (full face) in the directory and name it
user, e.g.user.jpg - Run
python run.py
If you want to use it with other than Cinnamon desktop environments. You can change SCREENSAVER_COMMAND to command for your desktop environment, e.g. SCREENSAVER_COMMAND = 'gnome-screensaver-command'.
In some cases you may be need to change LOCK_ARGS as well. Or even change lock_screen function behaviour.