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SYNDAEMON(1) X Version 11 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] [-m poll-inverval] [-d [-p pid-file]] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-v] syndaemon [-V|-?] DESCRIPTION Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window. OPTIONS -i idle-time How many seconds to wait after the last key press before en- abling the touchpad. Default is 2.0s. -m poll-interval How many milliseconds to wait between two polling intervals. If this value is too low, it will cause unnecessary wake-ups. If this value is too high, some key presses (press and release hap- pen between two intervals) may not be noticed. This switch has no effect when running with -R. Default is 200ms. -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 re- sponse 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 in- stead of polling the keyboard state. -v Print diagnostic messages. -V Print version string and exit. -? Show the help message. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES DISPLAY Specifies the X server to contact. EXIT CODES If syndaemon exists with a return code other than 0, the error encoun- tered is as below. Exit code 1 Invalid commandline argument. Exit code 2 The connection to the X sever could not be established or no touchpad device could be found. Exit code 3 The fork into daemon mode failed or the pid file could not be created. Exit code 4 XRECORD requested but not available or usable on the server. 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. AUTHORS Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>. This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org> SEE ALSO Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(4x) xlibre-xf86-input-synaptics 25... 2025-04-27 SYNDAEMON(1)
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