Thanks for packaging fprint. This has been working great for some years now. However with the latest version of Ubuntu (Trusty) a new lock screen was introduced. fprint doesn't work with this lockscreen for me. In lack of another place and in doubt whether this is upstream, I post this bug here.
As mentioned, fprint and Unity have been getting along great until I updated to Trusty. When I use Gnome instead of Unity, the Gnome lock screen is used which still supports fprint beautifully. However there is an issue with the new Unity lock screen and fprint. This is what I do: 1) Suspend (e.g. by closing the lid of my Thinkpad) 2) Wake up Laptop and wait for the lock screen to show up 3) See the prompt to swipe my finger where the password prompt usually is (this is expected behaviour!) What I expect: Usually the green LED built in to my fingerprint reader lights up and I am able to login using it. Pressing ESC instead of swiping a finger should fall back to the password prompt (that is what I'm used to from both fprint with earlier versions of Ubuntu and fprint with Gnome). What happens instead: The green light doesn't light up and swiping has no effect. Pressing ESC does not fall back to password prompt. The only way to login is using the menue in the right of the top panel and go to the 'switch user' screen where I can enter my password to login. It almost seems as if the fingerprint reader does not wake up from suspend. However it doesn't seem to be a driver issue because it works flawelessly with Gnome. Any help to fix this is appreciated. I'd also be happy to provide you with more information if necessary. Please tell me if this should be posted upstream. Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346083 Title: gnome-about-me misses fprintd for fingerprint authentication support Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Just checked out the Gnome 2.26 release notes and there is a feature announced for gnome-about-me to be able to set your fingerprint reader up with. However it seems this is missing in Ubuntu build and fprintd is not available. The feature is announced here: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/#rnusers.aboutme --- snip --- 2.9. Fingerprint Reader Integration GNOME 2.26 now integrates with the fprintd fingerprint service to allow users to enroll fingerprints for use in authentication. If a system is configurated for allowing fingerprint authentication, users can enroll their fingerprints via Desktop ▸ Preferences ▸ About Me from the panel menu. --- snap --- What others do: Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Fingerprint Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/FingerForce To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/346083/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
