syndaemon
a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
see also :
Xorg - synclient
Synopsis
syndaemon
[-i idle-time] [-m
poll-inverval] [-d] [-p
pid-file] [-t] [-k]
[-K] [-R]
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description
Disabling the
touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the
pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong
window.
options
-i
<idle-time>
How many seconds to wait after
the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is
2.0s).
-m
<poll-interval>
How many milliseconds to wait
between two polling intervals. If this value is too low, it
will cause unnecessary wake-ups. If this value is too high,
some key presses (press and release happen between two
intervals) may not be noticed. This switch has no effect
when running with -R. Default is 200ms.
-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.
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.
environment variables
DISPLAY
Specifies the X server to contact.
exit codes
If syndaemon exists with a return code other than 0, the error
encountered is as below.
Exit code 1
Invalid commandline argument.
Exit code 2
The connection to the X sever could not be established or no
touchpad device could be found.
Exit code 3
The fork into daemon mode failed or the pid file could not be
created.
Exit code 4
XRECORD requested but not available or usable on the server.
see also
Xorg ,
synclient , synaptics
authors
Peter Osterlund
<petero2[:at:]telia[:dot:]com>.
This man page was written by Mattia Dongili
<malattia[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>