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| author | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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diff --git a/articles/2025/Touchpad-deactivation.html b/articles/2025/Touchpad-deactivation.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..2f66a78 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/2025/Touchpad-deactivation.html @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +<!doctype html> +<html lang="EN"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> + <title>Touchpad deactivation</title> + </head> + <body> + <header> + <h1>Bloggings</h1> + <a href="/index.php">Back</a> + + </header> + +<main> +<article> +<h2>Touchpad deactivation</h2> +<h3>2025-06-09</h3> +<h4>When you have big hands and a little keyboard</h4> +<p>Until now I was using <b>synclient TouchpadOff=1</b> in my .xinitrc, but I was getting odd +results when using the keyboard mouse buttons. It turns out oddly the lower left area of my touchpad was infrequently active +and messing things up.</p> +<p>Replacing synclient with <b>xinput set-prop 11 172 0</b> fixed it.</p> +<p>I obtained the touchpad ID with <b>xinput list</b> and the command with <b>xinput -list-props 11</b></p> +<pre> + $ xinput list + ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] + ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] + ⎜ ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)] + ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=12 [slave pointer (2)] + ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] + ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] + ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] + ∼ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [floating slave] + +$ xinput -list-props 11 +Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad': + Device Enabled (172): 1 + ... + +$ xinput set-prop 11 172 0 + </pre> + </article> +</main> +<footer> + + <p> </p> + + <p>§</p> + </footer> +</body> +</html> |