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] [-m poll-inverval] [-d [-p pid-file]]
          [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-v]
syndaemon [-V|-?]

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.

-m poll-interval
    How many milliseconds to wait between two polling intervals. If this value is too low, it will cause unnecessary wake-ups. If this value is too high, some key presses (press and release happen between two intervals) may not be noticed. This switch has no effect when running with -R. Default is 200ms.

-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 daemon 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.

-v  Print diagnostic messages.

-V  Print version string and exit.

-?  Show the help message.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

DISPLAY
    Specifies the X server to contact.

EXIT CODES
If syndaemon exists with a return code other than 0, the error encountered is as below.

Exit code 1
    Invalid commandline argument.

Exit code 2
    The connection to the X sever could not be established or no touchpad device could be found.

Exit code 3
    The fork into daemon mode failed or the pid file could not be created.

Exit code 4
    XRECORD requested but not available or usable on the server.

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 <petero2@telia.com>.

This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>

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