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 l…

If your desktop’s fingerprint enrollment option isn’t working, you can use the fprintd-enroll command from your terminal to set it up.

[image] Cory Farmer: If your desktop’s fingerprint enrollment option isn’t working, you can use the fprintd-enroll command from your terminal to set it up. 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,…

[image] Lars: a button to enroll your fingerprints 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 …

Fingerprint Reader Set-up Advice?

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ilikelinux (ilikelinux) April 18, 2026, 12:15pm 4

If it is not, you can also have a look here:
https://linux-hardware.org/

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