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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 25 September 2014 05:20 PM,
Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Good evening
Sorry for bothering everybody so frequently.
I have a Dell Vostro 3500(?). That thing has a key combination to
temporarily disable the touchpad:
Fn + F6.
The two machines I am currently using to "practice Linux" (Mouse
Computer TW9 / Dell Inspiron 1545)
apparently do NOT have such keys.
I know I can disable the touchpad via "Settings", but ...
it would be REALLY nice, if it were possible to assign a KB shortcut to
that operation.
IS that posssible?
If so, how is it achieved?
Thank you in advance
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try following ....<br>
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get the device id of your touchpad using command "xinput list"<br>
<br>
( for more info. do man xinput )<br>
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i..e output on my laptop is as follow <br>
<br>
me@mylaptop:~ xinput list<br>
<br>
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master
pointer (3)]<br>
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave
pointer (2)]<br>
⎜ ↳ OKL Wireless Mouse OKL Wireless Mouse id=10 [slave
pointer (2)]<br>
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=12 [slave
pointer (2)]<br>
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=13 [slave
pointer (2)]<br>
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master
keyboard (2)]<br>
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave
keyboard (3)]<br>
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my touchpad device id is 12<br>
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disable it using following command <br>
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xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0<br>
<br>
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if you want to re-enable it use following command<br>
<br>
xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 1<br>
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now write a script containing above commands , assigned it to some
custom key-board short cuts <br>
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!!!!<br>
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Warm Regards <br>
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