Did I break the FW16 Fingerprint Reader by changing my username?
Hi, I am new to using Linux as a Desktop experience. When installing Bazzite (w/ KDE) on my Framework 16 a few weeks ago, the "username" and "name" fields got switched up. Recently, it's been bugging me enough to try and change these around. When trying this initially, the settings window complained that resources were being used by another process (which I looked up to be systemd). It still changed the "display name" thing though.
So what I did was:
- I created an admin user "tempuser"
- logged out
- switched to tempuser
- ran sudo usermod -l newname -d /home/newname -m oldname
- logged back in or restarted
- Deleted tempuser
- Found out some stuff was not working, which I kinda expected though. Lutris said everything was missing for example, so I changed the prefixes. Found that profile picture and wallpapers werent set anymore, changed these aswell.
- (Probably restarted again here)
- created a symlink from /home/oldname to /home/newname in hopes that other issues could be fixed by this (Like Dolphin (the file explorer) complaining that all standard shortcuts like documents and downloads were broken)
- restarted
Only now, I realized that I 1. dont have any fingerprints saved anymore and 2. can't create new ones becuase the fingerprint reader apparently doesnt react to anything I do anymore. Any advice on how I would debug this or solve this issue? (I'd rather spend a day completely reinstalling the system when I have time than to try to go back and potentially break things even more.)
So what I did was:
- I created an admin user "tempuser"
- logged out
- switched to tempuser
- ran sudo usermod -l newname -d /home/newname -m oldname
- logged back in or restarted
- Deleted tempuser
- Found out some stuff was not working, which I kinda expected though. Lutris said everything was missing for example, so I changed the prefixes. Found that profile picture and wallpapers werent set anymore, changed these aswell.
- (Probably restarted again here)
- created a symlink from /home/oldname to /home/newname in hopes that other issues could be fixed by this (Like Dolphin (the file explorer) complaining that all standard shortcuts like documents and downloads were broken)
- restarted
Only now, I realized that I 1. dont have any fingerprints saved anymore and 2. can't create new ones becuase the fingerprint reader apparently doesnt react to anything I do anymore. Any advice on how I would debug this or solve this issue? (I'd rather spend a day completely reinstalling the system when I have time than to try to go back and potentially break things even more.)
Solution
And this theory seems correct! It looks like you need to manually delete the fingerprint on the "old" username and enroll a new one if you rename. (Im just gonna ignore that big red error on the top)
