Sorry for a bit of off-topic but it looks like the new ms keyborad as a small touch sensor which is unreliable with the current matching algo. That's the problem we really need competent people and/or sponsorship for first. Even if someone writes a driver for that kb, the experience will still be so-so.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:58 PM Julien Nicoulaud < julien.nicoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, > > It looks like it uses a in-house protocol for automatic bluetooth > pairing, so it would probably be challenging to add support for this > keyboard in bluetooth mode: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/966097/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-ubuntu > > Anyway, if you (or anyone competent) are interested in working on > this, I can "sponsor" you by buying you one. > > Cheers, > Julien > > 2018-05-11 13:13 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net>: > > On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 20:54 +0200, Julien Nicoulaud wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> The supported devices list > >> (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported > >> _devices/) > >> has "MicrosoftKeyboard with Fingerprint Reader" as supported, but it > >> also says "Last edited Fri 13 Sep 2013", so I'm not sure... > > > > That was a wired USB keyboard. I'm pretty sure it looked like this: > > https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JPVB3RF9L.jpg > > > >> Is this keyboard supported ? > >> > https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-fingerprint-id > > > > This is a Bluetooth/USB keyboard, likely a completely different one. I > > have no idea how the Bluetooth fingerprint reader would work, but it's > > something I'll keep in mind while adding support for more than just USB > > devices to libfprint. > > > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > fprint mailing list > fprint@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint >
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