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portable >> Toggling Mouse Enable?

by km » Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:11:40 GMT

I run Linux on a couple of laptops with a built in touchpad mouse. I
find that whenever I type any significant amount of text, I end up
inadvertently brushing the touchpad and getting part of the text
misdirected.

What I want to do is be able to turn some key into a mouse disable, so
I can toggle it on and off when I'm typing a significant amount of
text.

Any suggestions?


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portable >> Toggling Mouse Enable?

by Dances With Crows » Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:40:11 GMT


On 28 Jan 2005 11:11:40 -0800, XXXX@XXXXX.COM staggered into the
Black Sun and said:

xbindkeys will work well for this *if* you can figure out how to disable
and re-enable input devices while X is running. This may not be easy.
xbindkeys can bind any key or key combination to any command, though, so
it's certainly powerful enough to do that.

Commands... "xset m X Y" won't do what you need. "apropos mouse"
returns nothing but SVGAlib and ncurses functions for me (what?) Right,
well the thing to do is find something that temporarily disables the
mouse and can be executed from the command line, then bind a key
combination to that.

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