Didier Kryn said on Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:42:11 +0200

>     Some people expressed the concern that they don't use their
>touchpad but unvountarily touch it and get the cursor moved in the
>wild.

My problem is I need the touchpad *once in a while*. So I made the
following shellscript that toggles the touchpad on and off, and linked
it to Ctrl+Shift+j:



#!/bin/sh

# touchtoggle.sh Copyright (C) 2019 by Steve Litt
# All rights reserved.
# Licensed via the
# Expat license: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat

# FIRST GET DEVICE'S DEVICE ID CONTAINING CASE INSENSITIVE "TOUCHPAD"
devid=`xinput | grep -i touchpad | \
sed -e"s/.*id=//" | sed -e"s/\s.*//"`

# WITH THAT DEVICE ID, FIND EVERYTING ABOUT PROPERTY
# CONTAINING CASE INSENSITIVE "DEVICE ENABLED"
scratchline=`xinput --list-props 11 | \
grep -i "device enabled" | \
sed -e"s/^\s*//" | sed -e"s/\s*$//"`
proptext=`echo $scratchline | sed -e"s/\s*(.*//"`
propid=`echo $scratchline | sed -e"s/.*(//" | sed -e"s/).*//"`
currstate=`echo $scratchline | sed -e"s/.*):\s*//"`

# DIAGNOSTICS, COMMENT OUT WHEN FULLY FUNCTIONAL
echo diagnostic devid      =$devid
echo diagnostic scratchline=$scratchline
echo diagnostic proptext   =$proptext#
echo diagnostic propid     =$propid

# TOGGLE CURRSTATE VARIABLE
echo -n "Current state of $currstate "
if test "$currstate" = "1"; then
    currstate=0
else
    currstate=1
fi
echo has been changed to $currstate.

# IMPLEMENT THE PROPERTY VALUE CHANGE
xinput set-prop $devid $propid $currstate

# UNCOMMENT FOLLOWING LINE IF PROPERTY ID STOPS WORKING
#xinput set-prop $devid "$proptext" $currstate

















SteveT

Steve Litt

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