On 2024-05-21 12:42:54 Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote: > On 5/21/24 11:55 AM, J Leslie Turriff via tde-devels wrote: > > I'm setting up a laptop machine that doesn't have a BIOS setting for > > disabling its touchpad. I can run synclient in the user's .bashrc, but > > that doesn't disable it in the greeter, where one enters one's username > > and password. > > Where in the TDE startup sequence can I run synclient to disable the > > touchpad? > > The xinput command also is needed. For...? > > Further, some newer laptops such as Thinkpads have "extra buttons." In > addition to using xinput and synclient to disable trackpads, these extra > buttons need to be disabled too. > > In my case with a Thinkpad T580, using xinput list | grep -i 'thinkpad > extra buttons' reveals the culprit. > > I have a Thinkpad T400 and I only need the basic xinput and synclient > commands. > > With both laptops I mapped my shell script commands to Fn+F11 to toggle > the trackpad. > > To integrate the script with TDE, or any desktop environment, I created > $HOME/.config/autostart/trackpad-disable.desktop to launch my > trackpad-disable script. This automatically disables the trackpad. For > just TDE, the $TDEHOME/Autostart likely would suffice. When I want to > --rare -- I can use Fn+F11 to enable the trackpad. > ____________________________________________________ > tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@trinitydesk >top.org Okay, but I'm trying to get it disabled in the greeter screen, where one enters username and password, before the user session starts; so an autostart routine is too late. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
