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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:05:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB49778A87255C8403C913CCC8967C9@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGQLOQAI8uEyugOz@protected.localdomain> (Jean Louis's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:40:09 +0300")

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 08:24]:
>> > Some solutions are shown here:
>> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/886092/how-do-i-disable-the-touchpad-while-typing
>> >
>> > First tell what operating system do you use, and if you use X.org or
>> > what? As solutions vary depending of the environment.
>> 
>> Forgott to say: if I got it to work via Emacs, it would be OS independent.
>
> Find a way to disable touchpad on command line in Windows, and make
> equivalent to this function below. Do you have such solution?
>
> (defun touchpad-toggle ()
>   (interactive)
>   (if touchpad-toggle
>       (progn
> 	(setq touchpad-toggle nil)
> 	(shell-command "xinput disable 11")
> 	(message "Touchpad disabled"))
>     (progn
>       (setq touchpad-toggle t)
>       (shell-command "xinput enable 11")
>       (message "Touchpad enabled"))))
>
> Then you add some hook or process to monitor 2 seconds or more after
> typing that it remains disabled.

I know how to call a shell command from Emacs Jean. I don't want to turn
off and on the touchpad every time I borrow the computer. I will sooner
or later forgett it and the best of all best ladies will be annoyed why
her computer does not work any more :). I just want it to now work in
Emacs, not in other apps. I found disable-mouse by Purcell, I'll see how
that one works.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-31  0:40 Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:11 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  5:22   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:23   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:40     ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  6:05       ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-03-31  6:25         ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  6:55           ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 10:33             ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:36               ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 12:34                 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  8:32 ` Yuri Khan
2021-03-31 10:31   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:34     ` Jean Louis

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