syndaemon(1)                                                                                                        syndaemon(1)



NAME
       syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

SYNOPSIS
       syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-s]

DESCRIPTION
       Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong
       window.

OPTIONS
       -i <idle-time>
              How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad.  (default is 2.0s).

       -d     Start as a daemon, ie in the background.

       -p <pid-file>
              Create a pid file with the specified filename.  A pid file will only be created if the program is started in  dae-
              mon mode.

       -t     Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.

       -k     Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.

       -K     Like -k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.

       -R     Use the XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activity instead of polling the keyboard state.

       -s     Use  a  shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad instead of device properties. WARNING: The SHM mechanism
              is not secure if you are in an untrusted multiuser environment. All local users can change the parameters  at  any
              time. This option requires the driver Option "SHMConfig" to be enabled.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       DISPLAY
              Specifies the X server to contact.

CAVEATS
       It  doesn't  make  much sense to connect to a remote X server, because the daemon will then monitor the remote server for
       keyboard activity, but will disable the touchpad on the local machine.

AUTHORS
       Peter Osterlund <petero2ATtelia.com>.

       This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattiaATdebian.org>

SEE ALSO
       Xorg(1), synclient(1), synaptics(4)



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