1:syndaemon

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

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SYNTAX

      syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K]

DESCRIPTION

      Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving  focus  to
      the wrong window.  This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad configuration.

OPTIONS

      -i <idle-time>
             How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad.  (default is 2.0s).
 
      -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.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

      DISPLAY
             Specifies the X server to contact.

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.

RELATED

      synclient(1), synaptics(5)

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