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syndaemon(1)							  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] [-m poll-inverval]  [-d]  [-p  pid-file]  [-t]
       [-k] [-K] [-R]

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).

       -m <poll-interval>
	      How  many milliseconds to wait between two polling intervals. If
	      this value is too low, it will cause  unnecessary	 wake-ups.  If
	      this value is too high, some key presses (press and release hap‐
	      pen between two intervals) may not be noticed. This  switch  has
	      no effect when running with -R.  Default is 200ms.

       -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.

       -?     Show the help message.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       DISPLAY
	      Specifies the X server to contact.

EXIT CODES
       If syndaemon exists with a return code other than 0, the error  encoun‐
       tered is as below.

       Exit code 1
	      Invalid commandline argument.

       Exit code 2
	      The  connection  to  the	X sever could not be established or no
	      touchpad device could be found.

       Exit code 3
	      The fork into daemon mode failed or the pid file	could  not  be
	      created.

       Exit code 4
	      XRECORD requested but not available or usable on the server.

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 1.7.6		  syndaemon(1)
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