man syndaemon (Commandes) - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
NAME
syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
SYNTAX
syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k]
DESCRIPTION
Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window. This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad configuration.
OPTIONS
- -i <idle-time>
- How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is 2.0s).
- -d
- Start as a daemon, ie in the background.
- -p <pid-file>
- Create a pid file with the specified filename. A pid file will only be created if the program is started in daemon mode.
- -t
- Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.
- -k
- Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- DISPLAY
- Specifies the X server to contact.
CAVEATS
It doesn't make much sense to connect to a remote X server, because the daemon will then monitor the remote server for keyboard activity, but will disable the touchpad on the local machine.
AUTHORS
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.
- This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>