On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:48:16AM +0100, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
[question is how to deactivate mouse temporarily]
FWIW, to toggle the touchpad on my laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens lifebook S series
running Fedora Core 5) I use
kpress("F12", "ioncore.exec_on(_, 'touchpad')")
in the WScreen context bindings, where ~/bin/touchpad is the following
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#!/bin/bash
state=`synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | cut -d "=" -f 2`
if [ $state = '0' ] ; then
synclient TouchpadOff=1
elif [ $state = '1' ] ; then
synclient TouchpadOff=0
else
echo "$(basename $0): failed to determine current state of touchpad"
exit 1
fi
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This seems to work, but I'd be interested to know if people have criticisms.
Dan
> this is solved by having a second InputDevice with device="/dev/null"
> and using xsetpointer.
>
> yours sincerely
>
> Eric Böse-Wolf
> --
> If you think technology can solve your problems you don't understand
> technology and you don't understand your problems. (Bruce Schneier)
