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.TH "syndaemon" "1" "0.14.3" "" ""
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syndaemon \- a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables
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the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
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syndaemon [\fI\-i idle\-time\fP] [\fI\-d\fP] [\fI\-p pid\-file\fP]
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[\fI\-t\fP] [\fI\-k\fP]
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Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the
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pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window.
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This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics
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Touchpad configuration.
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\fB\-i\fR <\fIidle\-time\fP>
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How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the
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Start as a daemon, ie in the background.
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\fB\-p\fR <\fIpid\-file\fP>
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Create a pid file with the specified filename.
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A pid file will only be created if the program is started in daemon
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Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements, in response
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Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.
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.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
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Specifies the X server to contact.
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It doesn't make much sense to connect to a remote X server, because
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the daemon will then monitor the remote server for keyboard activity,
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but will disable the touchpad on the local machine.
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Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.
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This man page was written by Mattia Dongili <malattia@debian.org>
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synclient(1), synaptics(5)
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