<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:58 PM Julien Nicoulaud <<a href="mailto:julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com">julien.nicoulaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks,<br>
<br>
It looks like it uses a in-house protocol for automatic bluetooth<br>
pairing, so it would probably be challenging to add support for this<br>
keyboard in bluetooth mode:<br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/966097/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://askubuntu.com/questions/966097/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-ubuntu</a><br>
<br>
Anyway, if you (or anyone competent) are interested in working on<br>
this, I can "sponsor" you by buying you one.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Julien<br>
<br>
2018-05-11 13:13 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera <<a href="mailto:hadess@hadess.net" target="_blank">hadess@hadess.net</a>>:<br>
> On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 20:54 +0200, Julien Nicoulaud wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> The supported devices list<br>
>> (<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported</a><br>
>> _devices/)<br>
>> has "MicrosoftKeyboard with Fingerprint Reader" as supported, but it<br>
>> also says "Last edited Fri 13 Sep 2013", so I'm not sure...<br>
><br>
> That was a wired USB keyboard. I'm pretty sure it looked like this:<br>
> <a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JPVB3RF9L.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JPVB3RF9L.jpg</a><br>
><br>
>> Is this keyboard supported ?<br>
>> <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-fingerprint-id" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-fingerprint-id</a><br>
><br>
> This is a Bluetooth/USB keyboard, likely a completely different one. I<br>
> have no idea how the Bluetooth fingerprint reader would work, but it's<br>
> something I'll keep in mind while adding support for more than just USB<br>
> devices to libfprint.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
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