Hi Nio, Mark et al,
I believe I have found the very thing I was looking for in syndaemon
although its name is not exactly propitious!
This is a system command which, according to the man page, allows you
to set the delay during which the touchpad is defeated once a (say
alphanumeric) key is pressed. Default is 2 seconds. Polling interval
default is 200ms. Quite a few options to play with...
Defaults work quite well for me. I was beginning to realise I missed the
touchpad, after switching it off with synclient habitually on bootup.
I'm using the latest update of Lu16.04. Don't know yet whether it's
still in 16.10, nor if you'll find it in things like 4MLinux. Not clear
where it comes from, but it is regarded as a general command and is
documented by someone at debian.org.
Two small complaints: (1) Scrolling through a list with the touchpad
becomes tedious since the cursor actually moves in saccades - but this
goes with the territory, I would say. (2) I don't see any provision for
turning it off. Since there are kinds of work where its effect is very
desirable, I want it on most of the time. But sometimes It needs to be
off for rapid screening through lists of, e.g. e-mails or files.
Probably have to set defeat to 0 seconds...
Ciao,
Basil
On 06/09/2016 21:38, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Hi Mark,
synclient touchpadoff=1 ## turns off the touchpad
synclient touchpadoff=0 ## turns on the touchpad
You can make aliases for these commands or bind them to some hotkey
combination.
Best regards
Nio
Den 2016-09-06 kl. 21:31, skrev Mark F:
I would like the shortcuts better than snapping. (I turn off snapping, I
don't like it at all. I must be unusual because it seems to be the
default in other distros.).
Is there a listing of available shortcuts? I know the info can be seen
in ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml . But, I'm thinking new users
(Windows users specifically) who might comprehend it the info was more
available like a help file(?).
I'd like to see a shortcut for disabling/enabling the laptop touchpad. I
wrote a couple shell scripts to do that.[1] One toggles it on/off and is
bound to a keyboard shortcut. I call the other script from .profile to
toggle the touchpad off by default.
(A "touchpad-indcator" package exists. But, I don't need that much
fancy'ness and overhead.).
[1] The scripts do the following:
xinput list (to get the touchpad's id-number)
xinput set-prop {id-number} "Device Enabled" 0 (or 1).
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntl...@gmail.com
<mailto:ian.bruntl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I like the short-cut ALT+x keypress which alternately maximises the
window or returns it to its previous size.
However, I have noted with things like a terminal emulator (in which
I use bash) or emacs, quite often I end up manually making their
windows either as tall as possible or wide as possible.
Would other people find such shortcuts useful? Do they already
exist?
BW,
Ian
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