syndaemon (1)

Name

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

Synopsis

syndaemon  [-i  idle-time]  [-m  poll-inverval]   [-d]   [-p
pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R]

Description

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

SYNOPSIS
     syndaemon  [-i  idle-time]  [-m  poll-inverval]   [-d]   [-p
     pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R]

DESCRIPTION
     Disabling  the  touchpad  while typing avoids unwanted move-
     ments of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to  the
     wrong window.

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

     -m <poll-interval>
          How many  milliseconds  to  wait  between  two  polling
          intervals.  If  this  value  is  too low, it will cause
          unnecessary wake-ups. If this value is too  high,  some
          key  presses  (press  and  release  happen  between two
          intervals) may not  be  noticed.  This  switch  has  no
          effect when running with -R.  Default is 200ms.

     -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 move-
          ments, in response to keyboard activity.

     -k   Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.

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

     -R   Use the XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activ-
          ity instead of polling the keyboard state.

     -?   Show the help message.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     DISPLAY
          Specifies the X server to contact.

EXIT CODES
     If syndaemon exists with a return code  other  than  0,  the
     error encountered is as below.



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     Exit code 1
          Invalid commandline argument.

     Exit code 2
          The  connection to the X sever could not be established
          or no touchpad device could be found.

     Exit code 3
          The fork into daemon mode failed or the pid file  could
          not be created.

     Exit code 4
          XRECORD  requested  but  not available or usable on the
          server.

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 <malat-
          tia@debian.org>

SEE ALSO
     Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(7)


ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:

     +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
     |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |              ATTRIBUTE VALUE               |
     +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
     |Availability                 |x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-input-synaptics |
     +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
     |Interface Stability          |Volatile                                    |
     +-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+













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