[Thinkfinger-devel] Thinkfinger is slow on Archlinux?

[João Ferreira]

Hi,

Some time ago I have installed and configured Thinkfinger in my Archlinux
system. It worked well, but it was very slow! I had to wait 5 to 10 seconds
for the prompt to show, then a bit more before I could swipe my finger or
write my password, and then a bit more for the password to be accepted.

So, I've downloaded the development version and I've tried to find out why
it was being so slow. After some tests, I've found out that decreasing the
value of USB_TIMEOUT in libthinkfinger.c improved the situation. I've
written a very short post on this:

http://www.joaoff.com/2009/06/30/making-thinkfinger-faster

According to the comments on that post, I'm not the only one who had this
problem. So, I'm writing this email to let you know that this is an issue
and that it seems to exist a very simple fix. (I'm sure that this fix
creates problems somewhere else; maybe if I try to use an usb fingerprint
reader?)

Anyway, I hope someone knows how to fix it in a better way.

Regards,
Joao

PS: thanks to the authors for writing this excellent piece of software :)

[Simon Lundmark]

Hello!

Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only one with this
problem. Now I can use thinkfinger again!

Best regards,
Simon

Post by João Ferreira
Hi,
Some time ago I have installed and configured Thinkfinger in my Archlinux
system. It worked well, but it was very slow! I had to wait 5 to 10 seconds
for the prompt to show, then a bit more before I could swipe my finger or
write my password, and then a bit more for the password to be accepted.
So, I've downloaded the development version and I've tried to find out why
it was being so slow. After some tests, I've found out that decreasing the
value of USB_TIMEOUT in libthinkfinger.c improved the situation. I've
      http://www.joaoff.com/2009/06/30/making-thinkfinger-faster
According to the comments on that post, I'm not the only one who had this
problem. So, I'm writing this email to let you know that this is an issue
and that it seems to exist a very simple fix. (I'm sure that this fix
creates problems somewhere else; maybe if I try to use an usb fingerprint
reader?)
Anyway, I hope someone knows how to fix it in a better way.
Regards,
Joao
PS: thanks to the authors for writing this excellent piece of software :)
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