| cabpa | hello, how do i add the Caps Lock and Num Lock key indicator on the panel? | 02:18 |
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| manu1511 | hi | 17:47 |
| diogenes_ | !hi | manu1511 | 17:54 |
| ubottu | manu1511: Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 17:54 |
| billy-bezos | hello there, can i ask a question here? | 18:19 |
| manu1511 | yeah | 18:19 |
| billy-bezos | im on xubuntu 20.04 and i have an Authentec AES2501 fingerprint sensor on my laptop | 18:19 |
| billy-bezos | i was wondering if there was a way to make it work for logins and stuff? | 18:19 |
| pmjdebruijn | you'd need PAM integration I Guess | 18:20 |
| pmjdebruijn | https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/04/ubuntu-fingerprint-scanner-login-desktop apparently regular Ubuntu improved support for that, not sure how that applies to xubuntu | 18:21 |
| billy-bezos | i see | 18:22 |
| billy-bezos | i tried installing fprintd by following the tutorial from aarch wiki | 18:22 |
| billy-bezos | but it didnt really work | 18:22 |
| pmjdebruijn | you' | 18:23 |
| pmjdebruijn | you'll need more than just a daemon | 18:23 |
| pmjdebruijn | you need pam module, and an appliance to enroll your fingerprints | 18:23 |
| pmjdebruijn | the daemon is mostly just some infrastructure piece to tie the other two pieces together | 18:23 |
| billy-bezos | i tried to install fingerprint-gui but it seems that i was discontinued and wont work for 20.04 | 18:24 |
| billy-bezos | it* | 18:24 |
| billy-bezos | will installing libfprint make it work? | 18:27 |
| billy-bezos | sorry but i dont get how linux stuff works together yet : / | 18:27 |
| pmjdebruijn | libpam-fprintd you'll need that | 18:32 |
| pmjdebruijn | apparently the enrollment thing is tied to gnome-control-center | 18:33 |
| pmjdebruijn | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/fprintd-mock-runner that was linked on the page I pasted earlier | 18:33 |
| billy-bezos | looks like i had installed libpam-fprintd already | 18:35 |
| billy-bezos | but if i try fprintd-enrol it does not register my finger swipes and just kinda stays stuck | 18:36 |
| billy-bezos | also if the enrollement gui thing is tied to gnome does that mean i cannot use it on xubuntu since its xfce? | 18:38 |
| pmjdebruijn | not sure | 18:41 |
| pmjdebruijn | I've never tried it myself | 18:41 |
| billy-bezos | i see | 18:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | the pam things might need to be enabled | 18:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | not sure if merely installing it also enables it | 18:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | sudo pam-auth-update will tell you I guess | 18:42 |
| pmjdebruijn | keep in mind you might end up locking yourself out, so keep a livecd handy :) | 18:42 |
| billy-bezos | i do have it on a flash drive just in case | 18:43 |
| billy-bezos | i think i did that command before | 18:44 |
| billy-bezos | now it says that fingerprint authentication is enabled | 18:44 |
| pmjdebruijn | fprintd-list what does that say | 18:44 |
| pmjdebruijn | is fprintd currently running? | 18:44 |
| billy-bezos | found 1 devicesDevice at /net/reactivated/Fprint/Device/0Using device /net/reactivated/Fprint/Device/0User bezos has no fingers enrolled for AuthenTec AES2501. | 18:45 |
| billy-bezos | sorry for messed up formatting | 18:46 |
| pmjdebruijn | and 'fprintd-enroll bezos' just hangs? | 18:46 |
| billy-bezos | it says "Enrolling right index finger" as if its waiting for me to swipe my finger on it but it does not seem to register any swipes | 18:47 |
| billy-bezos | i know that you have to do it maybe 10 times or something but still | 18:47 |
| pmjdebruijn | keep doing it | 18:48 |
| pmjdebruijn | maybe the sensor is just not that great | 18:48 |
| pmjdebruijn | require more passes | 18:48 |
| billy-bezos | its an older style one yeah def not great | 18:49 |
| * pmjdebruijn has to run | 18:49 | |
| pmjdebruijn | good luck | 18:49 |
| billy-bezos | but i used it occasionally on windows and i know its "sweet" spot | 18:49 |
| billy-bezos | ill keep trying then, thank you so much for the help and good night! | 18:49 |
| bill-bezos | hope im not nagging too much, but i have a more annoying problem | 19:13 |
| bill-bezos | when i suspend my laptop, it wakes up with glitchy graphics, and theres a 50/50 chance itll continue working just fine, or get stuck and make me have to force shutdown and reboot | 19:14 |
| bill-bezos | i read about it in the manual and it seems to be a common problem, but i was hoping there might be a way to fix it | 19:15 |
| bill-bezos | xubuntu 20.04 on an hp compaq 8510p with ati mobility radeon hd2600 | 19:15 |
| bill-bezos | is there any useful logs i can provide? | 19:15 |
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