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   Mark Bourne to Francis Marsden   
   Re: How to select (*) item in ncurses te   
   15 Feb 25 12:49:03   
   
   From: nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com   
      
   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.   
      
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