[ltp] Thinkfinger in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

[Adam Sloboda]

At Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:34:07 +0200,
Marius Gedminas <marius@gedmin.as> wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 06:42:14PM +0200, Benjam=ED Villoslada wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Tilman Koeneke wrote:
> > > I'm using ThinkFinger on my T61 (Ubuntu Intrepid) after following this
> > > instruction: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ThinkFinger
> > > Unfortunately, it's in german only.
> >=20
> > This was fine for 8.10 (thanks!), but seems that doesn't work wit Jaunt=
y 9.04
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfinger/+bug/363606
> >=20
> > tf-tool --verify says "Result: Fingerprint does match".
> >=20
> > No solution at this moment.  fprint_demo hangs :/
>=20
> I've used thinkfinger successfully in Jaunty.  I didn't use the official
> Jaunty version (by accident), I used this PPA:
>=20
>   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jon-oberheide/ubuntu intrepid main
>=20
> It had bugfixes for some bugs in Intrepid, and, apparently, Jaunty's
> version had a lower version number and so was not upgraded.
>=20
> In Jaunty, there was a long pause (~4 seconds) before the 'password or
> swipe finger' prompt, and it was sufficiently irritating that I gave up
> and uninstalled thinkfinger after a few weeks.
>=20

If anybody experiences the delay take a look at this bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D519631


Regards,
Adam