disable the mouse temporarily

mrcold · 2009-07-13 14:54:16

I use a laptop and I would really like to be able to disable the touchpad using a keyboard shortcut or something. I have seen ways to disable it completely, and I could just disable tapping and the scrollbar, but i would really just like to press the windows key or something to turn it off or on.
I am using Xmonad and Openbox (not at the same time ) so i can figure out the shortcut part, if someone could point me toward how someone can disable the mouse.

Thanks

eldragon · 2009-07-13 15:16:30

check synclient, handles the touchpad through the command line...

Dusty · 2009-07-13 15:46:10

So don't try 'rmmod psmouse' and 'modprobe psmouse'. I tested it and the former works, but the latter doesn't and it also mucks up your keyboard... I had to do a cold reboot.

Dusty

mrcold · 2009-07-13 15:52:18

ok.. that looks like what i want, but I can't get it to work. I've looked at this page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/synclient

when i try to change one of the parameters, nothing happens. It appears to have worked, but when i list the settings (synclient -hl) nothing has changed, and the behavior of the touchpad remains the same.

what should i do?

eldragon · 2009-07-13 17:19:09

you need to configure xorg to work with it.... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

Thor · 2009-07-13 19:28:50

I use this:

#!/bin/bash
salida=$(lsmod | grep psmouse | cut -d" " -f1)

[[ "$salida" == "psmouse" ]] && sudo modprobe -r psmouse || sudo modprobe psmouse

and works fine for me.

.:B:. · 2009-07-13 21:42:57

mrcold wrote:

ok.. that looks like what i want, but I can't get it to work. I've looked at this page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/synclient
when i try to change one of the parameters, nothing happens. It appears to have worked, but when i list the settings (synclient -hl) nothing has changed, and the behavior of the touchpad remains the same.
what should i do?

in your ~/.xinitrc:

syndaemon -i 2 &

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#1 2009-07-13 14:54:16

disable the mouse temporarily

#2 2009-07-13 15:16:30

Re: disable the mouse temporarily

#3 2009-07-13 15:46:10

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#5 2009-07-13 17:19:09

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