A littlebit offtopic. But for Synaptics touchpads there is a easier way, by
using synclient.
from my i3 config:
# touchpad
bindsym $mod+slash exec --no-startup-id synclient touchpadoff=1
bindsym $mod+period exec --no-startup-id synclient touchpadoff=0
And synclient comes from:
[karl@utopia ~]$ pacman -Qo `which synclient`
/usr/bin/synclient is owned by xf86-input-synaptics 1.8.3-2
Karl
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Brian Grossman <
brian.grossman+i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Regarding #4, I explicitly turn off the trackpad on my thinkpad when I'm
going to type much. You could probably do something similar.
From my i3 config file:
bindsym --release Control+Shift+space exec --no-startup-id "xinput
list-props 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' | grep -q 'Synaptics Off
([0-9]*):\s*0' && xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics
Off' 1 || xinput set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics Off' 0"
