syndaemon(1)

NAME

syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

SYNTAX

syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K]

DESCRIPTION

Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window. This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad configuration.

OPTIONS

-i <idle-time>
    How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is 2.0s).

-d  Start as a daemon, ie in the background.

-p <pid-file>
    Create a pid file with the specified filename. A pid file will only be created if the program is started in daemon mode.

-t  Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.

-k  Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.

-K  Like -k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

DISPLAY
    Specifies the X server to contact.

CAVEATS

It doesn't make much sense to connect to a remote X server, because the daemon will then monitor the remote server for keyboard activity, but will disable the touchpad on the local machine.

AUTHORS

Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.

This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(4)