Hi,
I hacked syndaemon to work on NetBSD. Codeberg page:
https://codeberg.org/thezerobit/syndaemon-netbsd . Direct download:
https://codeberg.org/thezerobit/syndaemon-netbsd/archive/main.tar.gz
If you don't know what syndaemon is, it's a little daemon that pays
attention to keyboard activity in X and disables the trackpad while you
are typing. This is to prevent unintentional mouse movements and clicks
on laptop trackpads located just below the keyboard. This is pretty much
essential when working on my Thinkpad T580. There is a README.txt in the
repo which explains how to compile and use the tool.
The reason this is a bit of a hack is that the only way to safely
disable the trackpad that I could find was to set the sysctl variable
"hw.synaptics.finger_high" to a high enough value that the driver no
longer registers interaction. Feel free to contact me directly with
feedback or suggestions on how to improve it or if you need help getting
it working.
-thezerobit
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