Disable touchpad (was: Re: switch off auto-selection of text (or what ever it is called ..))
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Thu Dec 28 13:47:33 UTC 2017
Liam Proven wrote:
> On 28 December 2017 at 11:31, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > I can confirm that Karls description works for a Synaptics touchpad
> > - I have tried it ...
>
> That's great news. Can you give an example of the output -- it might
> be helpful for Robert & Peter?
Sure:
schleppi: ~/ > xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
[...]
schleppi: ~/ > xinput -list-props 11
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (152): 1
[...]
schleppi: ~/ > xinput -set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 0
schleppi: ~/ > xinput -list-props 11
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (152): 0
[...]
And indeed the touchpad no longer worked. But I could enable it again:
schleppi: ~/ > xinput -set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 1
schleppi: ~/ > xinput -list-props 11
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (152): 1
But the output of the last command also has two other lines which may be interesting:
Synaptics Palm Detection (309): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (310): 10, 200
I have no idea, what to do with these but maybe they could help in the context of the original thread.
Nils
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