syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-m poll-inverval] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R]
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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 movements 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 hap-
pen 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 movements, 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 activity
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 encoun-
tered is as below.
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 <malattia@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 |
+-----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
X Version 11 xf86-input-synaptics 1.7.8
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