On 06/18/2018 08:14 AM, karl schattschneider wrote:
Hello everyone ....
and special thanks to J. Fahrner for pointig me in the right direction.
Doing a lot of scripting myself I wondered what his script would come up
with. So I just tried.
xinput list gave me:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ eGalax Inc. eGalaxTouch EXC3000-0166-29.00.00 id=10 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) id=11 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech Optical USB Mouse id=13 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) id=12 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam id=14 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Intel Virtual Button driver id=15 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Raw Set 2 keyboard id=16 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) id=17 [slave
keyboard (3)]
which told me that the *grep* would have failed but I tried to issue the
necessary commands manually.
Finally xinput set-prop *12* "Device Enabled" 0 did what I wanted to
achieve. When I found out that this was only valid for the current
session I just put the command in a shell script which is called from my
~/.xinitrc.
You see: I don't really know what I'm doing:-D. Things probably can be
done more elegantly but he touchpad doesn't get in my way anymore.
(Did I reply correctly? If not please give me hints on what I could do
better. Special markup for snippets of code?)
Thank you.
Karl.
Hi Karl,
Using the id number may only last for one session as it can change after
rebooting. Instead call out the entire device by name "ITE Tech. Inc.
ITE Device(8910)" with quotation marks due to the spaces in the name.
Something like:
xinput --disable "ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910)"
and then you can use:
xinput --enable "ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910)"
to re-enable the device.
Are you sure it is id12 that is you pointer? I ask because that name is
also used for id=17, which is noted as a slave keyboard. That command
above may disable both devices. I hope it does not disable your
keyboard also. You may have to reboot or login on a different virtual
screen to change back.
I am on my desktop now so I can not look at how my laptop is configured
to disable the synaptic touchpad but I used something similar as above
using the name of the pointing device.
Regards,
Eric
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