syndaemon (1) Linux Manual Page
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 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 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 encountered 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 [at] telia.com>.
- This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia [at] debian.org>
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(4)