From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to switch off the touchpad when Emacs window is active under Linux?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:14:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150824190903.3079.0B60605E@ahiker.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18033119.faXLECKoLl@linux-k2bd.site>
On 2015-08-24 21:02 +0200, AW wrote:
> Synclient on this notebook works, but this function doesn't:
> (defun turn-off-mouse (&optional frame)
> (interactive)
> (let ((inhibit-message t) (default-directory "~"))
> (shell-command "synclient TouchpadOff=1")))
>
> (defun turn-on-mouse (&optional frame)
> (interactive)
> (let ((inhibit-message t) (default-directory "~"))
> (shell-command "synclient TouchpadOff=0")))
>
> (add-hook 'focus-in-hook #'turn-off-mouse)
> (add-hook 'focus-out-hook #'turn-on-mouse)
> (add-hook 'delete-frame-functions #'turn-on-mouse)
The variable inhibit-message doesn't exist in my emacs (probably a
recent addition), but I'm guessing that it discards any output from the
subprocess. I would leave it out so you see what prevents synclient
from working.
Also, I don't see why changing default-directory should be necessary,
either.
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2015-08-24 19:02 How to switch off the touchpad when Emacs window is active under Linux? AW
2015-08-24 19:14 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2015-08-24 19:51 ` AW
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2015-08-24 19:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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