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Bash script to toggle touchpad state on X server
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # set your device name here (can be found through `xinput`) | |
| touchpadDevice='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | |
| if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then | |
| # set the device state via argument (must be 0 or 1) | |
| devEnabled=$1 | |
| else | |
| # toggle the device state | |
| id=$(xinput --list --id-only "$touchpadDevice") | |
| devEnabled=$(xinput --list-props $id | awk '/Device Enabled/{print !$NF}') | |
| fi | |
| # alter the device state and subsequently print the state via wm dbus | |
| if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] ; then | |
| export DISPLAY=:1 | |
| export touchpadDevice | |
| export devEnabled | |
| /usr/bin/su $USER -c '/usr/bin/xinput --set-prop "$touchpadDevice" "Device Enabled" "$devEnabled"' | |
| /usr/bin/su $USER /usr/bin/notify-send -t 2000 -i "input-touchpad" "$touchpadDevice" "TouchPad device is $([[ $devEnabled -eq 0 ]] && echo -ne "disabled" || echo -ne "enabled")" | |
| else | |
| /usr/bin/xinput --set-prop "$touchpadDevice" 'Device Enabled' "$devEnabled" | |
| /usr/bin/notify-send -t 2000 -i "input-touchpad" "$touchpadDevice" "TouchPad device is $([[ $devEnabled -eq 0 ]] && echo -ne "disabled" || echo -ne "enabled")" | |
| fi | |
| unset devEnabled | |
| unset touchpadDevice | |
| unset id |
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Check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92896 if you want to call this script via udev rather than manually invocation upon usb mouse plug-in/out.