Re: How to switch off the touchpad when Emacs window is active under Linux?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2015-08-24 21:02 +0200, AW wrote:

> Synclient on this notebook works, but this function doesn't:

> (defun turn-off-mouse (&optional frame)
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((inhibit-message t) (default-directory "~"))
>     (shell-command "synclient TouchpadOff=1")))
> 
> (defun turn-on-mouse (&optional frame)
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((inhibit-message t) (default-directory "~"))
>     (shell-command "synclient TouchpadOff=0")))
> 
> (add-hook 'focus-in-hook #'turn-off-mouse)
> (add-hook 'focus-out-hook #'turn-on-mouse)
> (add-hook 'delete-frame-functions #'turn-on-mouse)

The variable inhibit-message doesn't exist in my emacs (probably a
recent addition), but I'm guessing that it discards any output from the
subprocess.  I would leave it out so you see what prevents synclient
from working.

Also, I don't see why changing default-directory should be necessary,
either.

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