syndaemon - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K]

Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window. This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad configuration.

-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.

DISPLAY

Specifies the X server to contact.

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.

Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>.