As the title says, I’m looking for how to set up the fingerprint reader on my Lenovo X380. I’ve done Google searches, forum searches, System Settings searches, KDE docs, etc. and there’s quite a bit of buzz, but nothing about where I need to go to set up the fingerprint reader.
Anyone know?
If your fingerprint reader is supported, you can just go to the user settings in the KDE system settings application (and similarly in Gnome). In your user settings on the right, there should be a button to change your password, another to delete the user (greyed out if it is the user that you are logged in as), and finally a button to enroll your fingerprints. (Sorry I can’t give you the actual button texts, my system isn’t set to English.)
If your desktop’s fingerprint enrollment option isn’t working, you can use the fprintd-enroll command from your terminal to set it up.
If it is not, you can also have a look here:
https://linux-hardware.org/
I’m getting a “No devices available” notice, so I’m assuming it’s not supported even though the lsusb command reports a Validity Sensors, Inc. device which I thought was the fingerprint device.
I thought between Lenovo being all cosy with Linux and the devs doing more work to support this in Plasma 6.6 this would be pretty much an out-of-the-box experience. (sigh)
Yeah, I don’t see that button, so I guess it’s not supported. Thanks.
It’s not KDE that’s doing work to support fingerprint readers, it relies on another project, fprint, to do the heavy lifting. That’s where the fprintd-enroll command comes from.
But since you already mentioned lsusb, you can get the ID of your device and then look it up in the supported devices of the fprint project.
