Fingerprint scanner: Revision history

19 October 2025

• curprev 20:2720:27, 19 October 2025 Frontear talk contribs 3,291 bytes −44 don't encourage enabling fprintd service at boot, this goes against upstream wishes and can lead to possible hardware damage, as many fingerprint scanners are not intended to remain "active" for a long time. it is more appropriate for the service to activate via dbus when it is needed, to greatly reduce this risk. Tag: Visual edit

5 July 2025

• curprev 16:4216:42, 5 July 2025 Ncfavier talk contribs 3,335 bytes −5 fprintd-enroll doesn't need to (and shouldn't) be run as root Tag: Visual edit

31 May 2025

• curprev 12:2012:20, 31 May 2025 Thisisnotvasco talk contribs m 3,340 bytes −63 Remove unnecessary '}' from pam snippet.

23 April 2025

• curprev 05:5505:55, 23 April 2025 Mmkaram talk contribs m 3,403 bytes +37 vfs0090 driver is marked as broken in nixpkgs Tag: Visual edit

2 February 2025

• curprev 16:4816:48, 2 February 2025 Martials talk contribs m 3,366 bytes −18 gdm and gnome-keyring was moved to top-level

21 January 2025

• curprev 18:4718:47, 21 January 2025 Imsick talk contribs m 3,384 bytes +194 added instruction for focaltech driver Tag: Visual edit

19 January 2025

• curprev 15:1915:19, 19 January 2025 TNTima talk contribs m 3,190 bytes +2 added semicolons Tag: Visual edit

16 December 2024

• curprev 19:0819:08, 16 December 2024 Granddave talk contribs m 3,188 bytes +92 Add gnome pre-text Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 19:0619:06, 16 December 2024 Granddave talk contribs 3,096 bytes +343 Add fingerprint enrollment for Gnome Tag: Visual edit

31 October 2024

• curprev 22:2122:21, 31 October 2024 Arunoruto talk contribs 2,753 bytes +1,712 Add a section about how to configure fingerprint login like in other distros Tag: Visual edit

12 July 2024

• curprev 20:2920:29, 12 July 2024 Zilti talk contribs 1,041 bytes +79 tod is often unnecessary. Tag: Visual edit

19 April 2024

• curprev 19:5119:51, 19 April 2024 Klinger talk contribs 962 bytes +962 Full article for installing fingerprint scanners Tag: Visual edit: Switched