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syndaemon

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
EXIT CODES
CAVEATS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO

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@telia.com>.
This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>