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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.              --       Mark.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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