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syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables
the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
syndaemon [-i idle-time]
[-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-s]
Disabling the touchpad while
typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving
focus to the wrong window.
- -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.
- -K
- Like -k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.
- -R
- Use the
XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activity instead of polling the
keyboard state.
- -s
- Use a shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad
instead of device properties. WARNING: The SHM mechanism is not secure if
you are in an untrusted multiuser environment. All local users can change
the parameters at any time. This option requires the driver Option "SHMConfig"
to be enabled.
- DISPLAY
- Specifies the X server to contact.
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.
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.
- This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>
Xorg(1)
,
synclient(1)
, synaptics(4)
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