Is there an east touchpad toggle Leap 15.2?
I’m tearing my hair out trying to use Libre Office Writer on an HP laptop. I touch type and constantly have unintended mistyped content because it’s impossible to not hit the touchpad with my hands. I need the cursor movement functionality available, so going into setup every time I want to activate or deactivate it is not practical? I’ve searched a fair amount fir a solution but haven’t found one. Is there any way to have a function key, or sone kind of hot key to accomplish thus? Thanks Jim Thus spake iPad.
Am Freitag, 26. März 2021, 22:01:50 CET schrieb Jim Sabatke:
I’m tearing my hair out trying to use Libre Office Writer on an HP laptop. I touch type and constantly have unintended mistyped content because it’s impossible to not hit the touchpad with my hands. I need the cursor movement functionality available, so going into setup every time I want to activate or deactivate it is not practical? I’ve searched a fair amount fir a solution but haven’t found one. Is there any way to have a function key, or sone kind of hot key to accomplish thus?
I've been there - didn't like it all that much either. Several possible options: 1. your laptop should have some hotkey to enable and disable the touchpad - if you'Re lucky it works on linux too 2. the touchpad configuration in KDE/Plasma should be able to enable the "typing detection" that should prevent your mistyping from happening 3. lastly, get a laptop mouse, plug it in, and go to the touchpad configuration in Plasma - there's an option to automaticly disable the touchpad as soon as the mouse is plugged in. Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy@tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102
On 3/26/21 4:01 PM, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I’m tearing my hair out trying to use Libre Office Writer on an HP laptop. I touch type and constantly have unintended mistyped content because it’s impossible to not hit the touchpad with my hands. I need the cursor movement functionality available, so going into setup every time I want to activate or deactivate it is not practical? I’ve searched a fair amount fir a solution but haven’t found one. Is there any way to have a function key, or sone kind of hot key to accomplish thus?
Thanks
Jim
Thus spake iPad.
I use a simple bash script aliased to 'ttp' (toggle touch pad): #!/bin/bash declare -i ID ID=`xinput list | grep -Eio '(touchpad|glidepoint)\s*id\=[0-9]{1,2}' | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}'` declare -i STATE STATE=`xinput list-props $ID|grep 'Device Enabled'|awk '{print $4}'` if [ $STATE -eq 1 ] then xinput disable $ID else xinput enable $ID fi Should work just fine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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