[lubuntu-users] Keyboard shortcuts

[Basil Fernie]

Hi Nio, Mark et al,

I believe I have found the very thing I was looking for in syndaemon   
although its name is not exactly propitious!

This is a system command which, according to the  man page, allows you 
to set the delay during which the touchpad is defeated  once a (say 
alphanumeric) key is pressed. Default is 2 seconds. Polling interval 
default is 200ms. Quite a few options to play with...

Defaults work quite well for me. I was beginning to realise I missed the 
touchpad, after switching it off with synclient habitually on bootup.

I'm using the latest update of Lu16.04. Don't know yet whether it's 
still in 16.10, nor if you'll find it in things like 4MLinux. Not clear 
where it comes from, but it is regarded as a general command and is 
documented by someone at debian.org.

Two small complaints: (1) Scrolling through a list with the touchpad 
becomes tedious since the cursor actually moves in saccades - but this 
goes with the territory, I would say. (2) I don't see any provision for 
turning it off. Since there are kinds of work where its effect is very 
desirable, I want it on most of the time. But sometimes It needs to be 
off for rapid screening through lists of, e.g.  e-mails or files. 
Probably have to set defeat to 0 seconds...

Ciao,
Basil



On 06/09/2016 21:38, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> synclient touchpadoff=1  ## turns off the touchpad
> synclient touchpadoff=0  ## turns on the touchpad
>
> You can make aliases for these commands or bind them to some hotkey 
> combination.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2016-09-06 kl. 21:31, skrev Mark F:
>> I would like the shortcuts better than snapping. (I turn off snapping, I
>> don't like it at all. I must be unusual because it seems to be the
>> default in other distros.).
>>
>> Is there a listing of available shortcuts? I know the info can be seen
>> in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml . But, I'm thinking new users
>> (Windows users specifically) who might comprehend it the info was more
>> available like a help file(?).
>>
>> I'd like to see a shortcut for disabling/enabling the laptop touchpad. I
>> wrote a couple shell scripts to do that.[1] One toggles it on/off and is
>> bound to a keyboard shortcut. I call the other script from .profile to
>> toggle the touchpad off by default.
>>
>> (A "touchpad-indcator" package exists. But, I don't need that much
>> fancy'ness and overhead.).
>>
>> [1] The scripts do the following:
>>  xinput list   (to get the touchpad's id-number)
>> xinput set-prop {id-number} "Device Enabled" 0   (or 1).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I like the short-cut ALT+x keypress which alternately maximises the
>>     window or returns it to its previous size.
>>
>>     However, I have noted with things like a terminal emulator (in which
>>     I use bash) or emacs, quite often I end up manually making their
>>     windows either as tall as possible or wide as possible.
>>
>>     Would other people find such shortcuts useful? Do they already 
>> exist?
>>
>>     BW,
>>
>>
>>     Ian
>>
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