From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:40:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37193"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 31 07:42:56 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lRTd2-0009Yw-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50694 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRTd1-0004OR-9t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRTcT-0004N2-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:47801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lRTcQ-000855-GX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.58]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E079.0000000060640BB6.0000620F; Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:42:14 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Arthur Miller , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128780 Archived-At: * Arthur Miller [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. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns