Re: How to turn off laptop touchpad? (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics doesn't) [SOLVED]

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Anno domini 2022 Sun, 18 Sep 14:22:18 -0500
 J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
> On 2022-09-17 08:29:51 James Leone wrote:
> > I made a bash script for the laptop i did this for a while back and plonked
> > it into ~/.trinity/Autostart.
> >
> > (Executable text file)
> >
> > "~" means home directory.
> >
> > For the lay person.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 6:01 AM Jim <zlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 23:32 (-0500), J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > > > On 2022-09-16 20:06:58 James Leone wrote:
> > > >> In general:
> > > >> xinput set-prop id-number "Device Enabled" 0
> > > >> Specific example (if I wanted to disable my UVC Camera):
> > > >>
> > > >> xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0
> > > >>
> > > >> You need to identify the id-number of the touchpad first.
> > > >>
> > > >> Steps:
> > > >> 1. at the command prompt, use:
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > >> From the output, determine the id of your device.
> > > >
> > > >       Yes, that works.  Thank you.  Should I put that into my .bashrc,
> > >
> > > or will it be remembered
> > >
> > > > across logout/ins?
> > >
> > > In case James doesn't get back to you soon...
> > >
> > > A quick experiment will probably show you that it will not be
> > > remembered across logout / logins.
> > >
> > > Yes, if you put that command into your .bashrc (assuming you use bash)
> > > you should be good to go.
> > >
> > >                                 Jim
> 	There seem to be multiple ways of making this work.  I tried the .xsessionrc method, and
> I'm happy with that.

.xsession is executed once at Xorg session start, .bashrc is executed every time you start a bash for your user, interactive or not, in an Xorg environment or not - which could have funny effects :)

Nik

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