This is a gem! I don't know how many times I have accidentally brushed at the touchpad while typing and moved the cursor to somewhere it shouldn't be or deleted text. Maybe one could write a daemon that disables the touchpad n seconds after the any-key has been pressed... :)

/fuumind

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:22:28 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:25:19 +0200
> aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>
> > On 04/27/2016 11:21 AM, aitor_czr wrote:
> > > If so, try doing:
> > > synclient TouchpadOff=1
> > >
> > > for enabling the touchpad, and:
> > >
> > > synclient TouchpadOff=0
> > >
> > > for disabling it.
> >
> > Sorry, it's in the other way around:
> >
> > synclient TouchpadOff=0
> >
> > enables the touchpad :)
>
> And for even more fun, here's the "touchtoggle" shellscript I put on
> every laptop, linked to hotkey Ctrl+Shift+j:
>
> =============================================
> #!/bin/sh
>

> curstate=`synclient | grep -i TouchpadOff | sed -e"s/.*= //"`
> if test "$curstate" = "1"; then
>     synclient TouchpadOff=0
> else
>     synclient TouchpadOff=1
> fi
> =============================================

>
>
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>
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