Script to toggle laptop track pad
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I have a script that disables the touchpad on my thinkpad:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
xinput --disable 12
How could I adjust the script so that instead of just disabling, it will check the current state of the touchpad and toggle the enable/disable?
shell-script xinput
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
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I have a script that disables the touchpad on my thinkpad:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
xinput --disable 12
How could I adjust the script so that instead of just disabling, it will check the current state of the touchpad and toggle the enable/disable?
shell-script xinput
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
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xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
– FrontENG
Jul 15 '17 at 0:54
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I have a script that disables the touchpad on my thinkpad:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
xinput --disable 12
How could I adjust the script so that instead of just disabling, it will check the current state of the touchpad and toggle the enable/disable?
shell-script xinput
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
I have a script that disables the touchpad on my thinkpad:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
xinput --disable 12
How could I adjust the script so that instead of just disabling, it will check the current state of the touchpad and toggle the enable/disable?
shell-script xinput
shell-script xinput
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
asked Jul 14 '17 at 23:08
SimonSimon
1112
1112
1
xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
– FrontENG
Jul 15 '17 at 0:54
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xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
– FrontENG
Jul 15 '17 at 0:54
1
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xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
– FrontENG
Jul 15 '17 at 0:54
xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
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It's strange that xinput can't filter its output itself. But we have grep!
xinput --list-props 12 | grep -q 'Device Enabled.*1$' && echo enabled || echo disabled
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
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to toggle the touchpad you could run a perl one-liner from this script:
perl -e '$dev="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"; `xinput list-props $dev` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m ; $1 ? `xinput --disable $dev` : `xinput --enable $dev`;
short expanation:
- the backticks execute a system/linux-command
- while matching the line where it says "Device Enabled" the regex looks for the last numeric character on that line (which is 0 ... for off, or 1 ... for on)
- the /m in the regex means: use each line from the output of the command as a seperate element (otherwise ^ and $ of the regex would mean the beginnen/end of the string, not the line
- the parantheses save the matched number into the Variable $1
- the rest is the ternary operaton: "if true" ? "do this" : "else to this", meaning if $1 equals 0 or 1 -> disable or enable
(to use this in, e.g. "i3" window manager: you would have to write:
bindsym XF86TouchpadToggle exec --no-startup-id perl -e '`xinput list-props 10` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m and $1 ? `xinput --disable 10` : `xinput --enable 10` '
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It's strange that xinput can't filter its output itself. But we have grep!
xinput --list-props 12 | grep -q 'Device Enabled.*1$' && echo enabled || echo disabled
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
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It's strange that xinput can't filter its output itself. But we have grep!
xinput --list-props 12 | grep -q 'Device Enabled.*1$' && echo enabled || echo disabled
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
add a comment |
It's strange that xinput can't filter its output itself. But we have grep!
xinput --list-props 12 | grep -q 'Device Enabled.*1$' && echo enabled || echo disabled
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
It's strange that xinput can't filter its output itself. But we have grep!
xinput --list-props 12 | grep -q 'Device Enabled.*1$' && echo enabled || echo disabled
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
answered Aug 12 '17 at 13:49
L29AhL29Ah
559114
559114
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to toggle the touchpad you could run a perl one-liner from this script:
perl -e '$dev="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"; `xinput list-props $dev` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m ; $1 ? `xinput --disable $dev` : `xinput --enable $dev`;
short expanation:
- the backticks execute a system/linux-command
- while matching the line where it says "Device Enabled" the regex looks for the last numeric character on that line (which is 0 ... for off, or 1 ... for on)
- the /m in the regex means: use each line from the output of the command as a seperate element (otherwise ^ and $ of the regex would mean the beginnen/end of the string, not the line
- the parantheses save the matched number into the Variable $1
- the rest is the ternary operaton: "if true" ? "do this" : "else to this", meaning if $1 equals 0 or 1 -> disable or enable
(to use this in, e.g. "i3" window manager: you would have to write:
bindsym XF86TouchpadToggle exec --no-startup-id perl -e '`xinput list-props 10` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m and $1 ? `xinput --disable 10` : `xinput --enable 10` '
answered Feb 5 at 12:48
elieli
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to toggle the touchpad you could run a perl one-liner from this script:
perl -e '$dev="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"; `xinput list-props $dev` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m ; $1 ? `xinput --disable $dev` : `xinput --enable $dev`;
short expanation:
- the backticks execute a system/linux-command
- while matching the line where it says "Device Enabled" the regex looks for the last numeric character on that line (which is 0 ... for off, or 1 ... for on)
- the /m in the regex means: use each line from the output of the command as a seperate element (otherwise ^ and $ of the regex would mean the beginnen/end of the string, not the line
- the parantheses save the matched number into the Variable $1
- the rest is the ternary operaton: "if true" ? "do this" : "else to this", meaning if $1 equals 0 or 1 -> disable or enable
(to use this in, e.g. "i3" window manager: you would have to write:
bindsym XF86TouchpadToggle exec --no-startup-id perl -e '`xinput list-props 10` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m and $1 ? `xinput --disable 10` : `xinput --enable 10` '
answered Feb 5 at 12:48
elieli
658615
add a comment |
to toggle the touchpad you could run a perl one-liner from this script:
perl -e '$dev="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"; `xinput list-props $dev` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m ; $1 ? `xinput --disable $dev` : `xinput --enable $dev`;
short expanation:
- the backticks execute a system/linux-command
- while matching the line where it says "Device Enabled" the regex looks for the last numeric character on that line (which is 0 ... for off, or 1 ... for on)
- the /m in the regex means: use each line from the output of the command as a seperate element (otherwise ^ and $ of the regex would mean the beginnen/end of the string, not the line
- the parantheses save the matched number into the Variable $1
- the rest is the ternary operaton: "if true" ? "do this" : "else to this", meaning if $1 equals 0 or 1 -> disable or enable
(to use this in, e.g. "i3" window manager: you would have to write:
bindsym XF86TouchpadToggle exec --no-startup-id perl -e '`xinput list-props 10` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m and $1 ? `xinput --disable 10` : `xinput --enable 10` '
answered Feb 5 at 12:48
elieli
658615
to toggle the touchpad you could run a perl one-liner from this script:
perl -e '$dev="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"; `xinput list-props $dev` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m ; $1 ? `xinput --disable $dev` : `xinput --enable $dev`;
short expanation:
- the backticks execute a system/linux-command
- while matching the line where it says "Device Enabled" the regex looks for the last numeric character on that line (which is 0 ... for off, or 1 ... for on)
- the /m in the regex means: use each line from the output of the command as a seperate element (otherwise ^ and $ of the regex would mean the beginnen/end of the string, not the line
- the parantheses save the matched number into the Variable $1
- the rest is the ternary operaton: "if true" ? "do this" : "else to this", meaning if $1 equals 0 or 1 -> disable or enable
(to use this in, e.g. "i3" window manager: you would have to write:
bindsym XF86TouchpadToggle exec --no-startup-id perl -e '`xinput list-props 10` =~ /^.*Device Enabled.+?(d)$/m and $1 ? `xinput --disable 10` : `xinput --enable 10` '
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xinput list shows a list all available and attached input devices on your system.Your current device should have id=12 section in its description.You may first show the STATE section then use an case statement to toggle between enable(state 0) disabled (state 1) URL for reference askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-the-touchpad
– FrontENG
Jul 15 '17 at 0:54