Hello, All,

Background: Acer C720 Chromebook, running GalliumOS 2.0 (Xubuntu 16.04). Touchpad issue: very jumpy, but no "disable when typing" option, and syndaemon installation will break system

Currently, I have the command:

xinput -disable "Cypress APA Trackpad (cyapa)"

bound to keystroke and:

xinput -enable "Cypress APA Trackpad (cyapa)"

bound to another. And I use one command or the other when typing.

It occurs to me that the xinput -disable "Cypress APA Trackpad (cyapa)" command (disabling touchpad) could be run at the press of any key and the xinput -enable "Cypress APA Trackpad (cyapa)" (enabling touchpad) could be run at any pause (say after 1.5 seconds).

Is it possible to script this procedure or is press-any-key and enable-after-any-pause too vague?

Any help would be much appreciated,
Jake

Yes. Simply write your command into a script, make it executable, put it into wherever you want /home/YOU/bin or /usr/bin/ then assign a key to toggle the script execution, you can do it from Menu -> Settings -> Xfce Settings Manager -> Keyboard -- choose Application Shortcuts and define it accordingly.

Hope that helps.

Good luck and enjoy.

m.m.

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Many thanks for your post, and perhaps it isn't possible to have a script constantly running in the background that senses through keypress or pause to disable or enable the touchpad.

In my original post, I said that I had bound a disable touchpad command to one keystroke and an enable touchpad to another keystroke. Is your idea the same? I'm not sure how to write a toggling script and I was hoping for something more automated.

Jake