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  • How to select (*) item in ncurses terminal Xubuntu

    From Francis Marsden@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 15 04:10:03 2025
    Just installed external fingerprint readers for my Xubuntu 24.04 desktop
    and laptop, using fprintd driver. When " sudo pam-auth-update " was entered into terminal an ncurses gui came up, I couldn't figure out how to select (add a star to) the fingerprint authentication line entry, so
    instead used the command " pam-auth-update --enable fprintd ". I would
    like to know how to select or deselect an item anyway. Tried every key,
    didn't work. Pressing "enter" just closed the ncurses gui without
    selecting the item. Anyone know how?

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  • From azigni@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 15 06:02:25 2025
    You may try here....? https://fprint.freedesktop.org/

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  • From Mark Bourne@21:1/5 to Francis Marsden on Sat Feb 15 12:49:03 2025
    Francis Marsden wrote:
    Just installed external fingerprint readers for my Xubuntu 24.04 desktop and laptop, using fprintd driver. When " sudo pam-auth-update " was entered into terminal an ncurses gui came up, I couldn't figure out how to select (add a star to) the fingerprint authentication line entry, so
    instead used the command " pam-auth-update --enable fprintd ". I would like to know how to select or deselect an item anyway. Tried every key, didn't work. Pressing "enter" just closed the ncurses gui without
    selecting the item. Anyone know how?

    Up/down arrow keys to highlight the relevant box, then space bar to select/deselect works for me. That's with Linux Mint 20, based on
    Ubuntu 20.04, so older than your version but I wouldn't expect something
    like this to have changed that much.

    --
    Mark.

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  • From Francis Marsden@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 15 15:04:14 2025
    On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:49:03 +0000, Mark Bourne wrote:

    Space bar worked, thanks. Probably the only key I didn't try

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