syndaemon(1)

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NAME

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

10       syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-s]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted  movements  of  the
14       pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window.
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OPTIONS

17       -i <idle-time>
18              How  many  seconds  to  wait  after  the  last  key press before
19              enabling the touchpad.  (default is 2.0s).
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21       -d     Start as a daemon, ie in the background.
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23       -p <pid-file>
24              Create a pid file with the specified filename.  A pid file  will
25              only be created if the program is started in daemon mode.
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27       -t     Only  disable  tapping  and  scrolling,  not mouse movements, in
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30       -k     Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.
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32       -K     Like -k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.
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34       -R     Use  the  XRecord  extension  for  detecting  keyboard  activity
35              instead of polling the keyboard state.
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37       -s     Use  a shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad instead
38              of device properties. WARNING: The SHM mechanism is  not  secure
39              if  you  are  in  an  untrusted multiuser environment. All local
40              users can  change  the  parameters  at  any  time.  This  option
41              requires the driver Option "SHMConfig" to be enabled.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

44       DISPLAY
45              Specifies the X server to contact.
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CAVEATS

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

53       Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.
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55       This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>
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