syndaemon(1) [suse man page]
syndaemon(1) General Commands Manual 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] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K] [-R] [-s] 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). -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. -s Use a shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad instead of device properties. WARNING: The SHM mechanism is not secure if you are in an untrusted multiuser environment. All local users can change the parameters at any time. This option requires the driver Option "SHMConfig" to be enabled. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DISPLAY Specifies the X server to contact. 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) X Version 11 xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.2 syndaemon(1)
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SCREENBLANK(1) BSD General Commands Manual SCREENBLANK(1) NAME
screenblank -- screen saver daemon for wscons and FBIO machines SYNOPSIS
screenblank [-k | -m] [-d inactivity-timeout] [-e wakeup-delay] [-f framebuffer] [-i input-device] screenblank {-b | -u} DESCRIPTION
screenblank disables the framebuffer if the keyboard and mouse are idle for a period of time, and re-enables the framebuffer when keyboard or mouse activity resumes. When killed with a SIGINT, SIGHUP, or SIGTERM, screenblank will re-enable the framebuffer. The pid can be found in the file /var/run/screenblank.pid. The options are as follows: -b Overriding the other options, simply try (once) to blank the framebuffer, then exit. -d inactivity-timeout Wait the number of seconds specified by inactivity-timeout, expressed in the format ``xxx.xxx'', before disabling the framebuffer due to inactivity. The default is 600 seconds (10 minutes). -e wakeup-delay Wait the number of seconds specified by wakeup-delay, expressed in the format ``xxx.xxx'', before re-enabling the framebuffer once activity resumes. The default is .25 seconds. -f framebuffer Use the framebuffer device framebuffer instead of the default /dev/fb. -i input-device Add input-device to the list of devices to monitor for activity. -k Do not check the keyboard for activity. -m Do not check the mouse for activity. -u Overriding the other options, simply try (once) to unblank the framebuffer, then exit. Note that the -k and -m flags are mutually exclusive. FILES
/dev/kbd The keyboard device. /dev/mouse The mouse device. /dev/console The console device. /dev/fb The default framebuffer. /dev/wskbd The keyboard for wscons machines. /dev/wsmouse The mouse device for wscons machines. /dev/ttyE0 The console device for wscons machines. /var/run/screenblank.pid File containing the pid of screenblank. BSD
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