Good morning
how setup fingerprint i want to use for unlock if possible .
my Laptop model is Huawei Matebook 13
Thank you
Unless something changed recently, there is probably no way you can do that.
Huawei laptops have a reputation for having proprietary fingerprint scanners with drivers only for Windows.
Do you know the exact model of the fingerprint sensor on your laptop?
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Yeah, I would give up at this point.
BTW, I changed the title of this thread to “Goodix GXFP5187 fingerprint sensor on Linux?”
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Don’t worry though, it’s not good security anyway…
It’s far better to have very strong password & encrypted disk for that matter.
If criminals or someone serious is onto you - they’ll easily break fingerprinting with very simple Social engineering techniques.
And if government is onto you - they’ll just cut your fingers 
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It’s not like they are going to care about a fingerprint reader anyway. They just want your data. If it is on an unencrypted disk they will just crack the case remove the drive and access it from another machine.
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Yeah, but it’s less poetic…Don’t imply sanity to insane actors 
by the way when i check on devices i see Goodix Fingerprint Device there, is that mean is have a chance to working or no 
Yeah, but also:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Huawei_MateBook_14_AMD_(2020)
Specifically:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Huawei_MateBook_14_AMD_(2020)#Fingerprint_reader
and:
Didn’t read the above posts. My bad! I see it shows not working according to the chart.
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There is a good chance one day the group that is working on hacking a free driver for it will succeed, but when, nobody can tell. They’ve been working on it, on and off, for years, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Unfortunately, hardware manufacturers like Goodix are a bunch of arses. 
BTW i just got a new Lenovo Thinkbook that has a fingerprint reader on the power button. It’s meant for logging into Windows as a login security option but i haven’t set it up and probably won’t. If i install EndeavourOS on it i may not bother either. Better off encrypting it instead or not bother with it. I don’t like using the encryption as it takes too long to boot to unlock the key etc. So i don’t use it either. I may try it someday but don’t really care that much about it.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I find fingerprint scanners to be a neat but fairly useless gimmick. Nothing beats a good password – at least They have to torture you to get it, instead of just chopping off your finger. 