[ltp] Re: Other uses for the fingerprint reader?

[Axel Braun]

Alex Polite wrote:

> I haven't bothered to activate the fingerprint reader on my X60
> tablet, partly because I'm not that security minded and if I where I
> sure as hell wouldn't trust a fingerprint reader to keep prying eyes
> away from my data.
> 
> But just now I realized that it might be put to other uses in tablet
> mode. It would be cool if one could bind different fingers to
> different functions in different programs. In acroread, the index
> finger could be scroll up and down, the middle finger could be zoom in
> and out, the ring finger could be pan and the pinky... Well you get
> the idea.
> 
> Anyone experimenting with anything like that? Any ideas on how to go
> about to accomplish it?

No, but would be interested to learn: I removed XP completely from my Z60m,
means together with the fingerprint software. Didnt dig into that, but saw
in the SUSE 11.0 Beta1 that there was module to configure the fingerprint
reader.

Ax
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