On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:18:26 +0200
karl schattschneider <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I got myself an old netbook (sold by Aldi Germany: Medion Akoya
> P2214T (MD99430)) and put ascii on it. Works ootb like a charm. My
> problem: I'm handycapped an cannot type very well. I settled for
> openbox because I can handle it. But I would like to disable the
> touchpad *completely*.
>
> Now I ran into a funny situation: When running XFCE I *can* disable
> it. (using 'xfce4-mouse-settings').
>
> However: when I use the utility from openbox it doesn't have *any*
> effect. What am I missing?
>
> Any help appreciated. Keep up the good work.
Hi Karl,
The following is my touchtoggle.sh, which is invoked (in my case) every
time I press Shift+Ctrl+j:
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#!/bin/sh
curstate=`synclient | grep -i TouchpadOff | sed -e"s/.*= //"`
if test "$curstate" = "1"; then
synclient TouchpadOff=0
else
synclient TouchpadOff=1
fi
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If you really and truly *never* want the touchpad enabled, my
touchoff.sh will do the trick:
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#!/bin/sh
synclient TouchpadOff=1
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Congrats on using Openbox, which is an extremely productive wm/de I use
every day. Given that you're a keyboard-centric person, consider using
dmenu from Suckless Tools to run executables on the path. Quicker than
any start menu or AI guesser, no mouse necessary. Whatever shellscript
you invoke dmenu with, map to an Openbox hotkey that's quick and easy,
because you'll be using it over 100 times a day. The following is my
dmenu_litt.sh to invoke dmenu, which I personally hooked to hotkey
Shift+Ctrl+; :
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#!/bin/sh
dmenu_run -i -l 32 -fn "7x14" -nf yellow -nb black -sf black -sb white
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SteveT
Steve Litt
June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
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