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User Commands                                        syndaemon(1)



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

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

DESCRIPTION
     Disabling the touchpad while typing  avoids  unwanted  move-
     ments  of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the
     wrong window.

OPTIONS
     -i 
          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 
          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  move-
          ments, 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.

     -s   Use a shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad
          instead  of device properties. WARNING: The SHM mechan-
          ism is not secure if you are in an untrusted  multiuser
          environment.  All local users can change the parameters
          at any time. This option  requires  the  driver  Option
          "SHMConfig" to be enabled.

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.




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User Commands                                        syndaemon(1)



AUTHORS
     Peter Osterlund .

     This man page was written by Mattia Dongili 

SEE ALSO
     Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(7)


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

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    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |               ATTRIBUTE VALUE              |
    |_____________________________|____________________________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-input-synaptics|
    |_____________________________|____________________________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Volatile                                   |
    |_____________________________|____________________________________________|



































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