Need rule/method to toggle touchpad when USB mouse attached.

[Member wildstar84]

Anyone got a working eudev rule for toggling a touchpad when a USB mouse is inserted or removed, or some general method that at least detects it’s insertion or removal? General googling hasn’t helped much (rules provided don’t seem to do anything and just produce error: “specified group ‘kvm’ unknown”.

Thanks!

[Member delix02]

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if I remember correctly, I made sveral changes :

1. the udev rule

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse[1-9]", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0.0", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/user/.Xauthority", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse[1-9]", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0.0", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/user/.Xauthority", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0"

and in /etc/X11 a xorg.conf file
`Section “ServerFlags”
Option “DontZap” “Off”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “true”
Option “blank time” “0”
Option “standby time” “0”
Option “suspend time” “0”
Option “off time” “0”
EndSection`

synclient must be installed.
However, you better use this hints for input of a StartPage search 🙂

EDIT : found the HowTo I followed
https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Touchpad_bei_eingesteckter_Maus_deaktivieren

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[Member wildstar84]

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[SOLVED!] Thank you sir, that did the trick! I did, however, catch the need to change (“/home/user” to /home/<me> (and fortunately, this is a single-abUser system, so not sure how would work on a multi-user system)! Not sure what I was wrong w/the way I was doing it before, but hey, yours WORKS!

Thanks again!

Jim

[Member wildstar84]

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Oops, spoke too soon – seems that on this box, if the mouse is plugged in on startup, it will get “mouse0” and the touchpad gets “mouse1”, otherwise, touchpad gets mouse0. Therefore, since the tp will NEVER get “unplugged”, I changed “[1-9]” above to “0-9]”, and removed the unneeded “ENV{ID_CLASS}…” parts and all is well now! Final rules:

ACTION==”add”, SUBSYSTEM==”input”, KERNEL==”mouse[0-9]”, ENV{DISPLAY}=”:0.0″, ENV{XAUTHORITY}=”/home/janelle/.Xauthority”, RUN+=”/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1″
ACTION==”remove”, SUBSYSTEM==”input”, KERNEL==”mouse[0-9]”, ENV{DISPLAY}=”:0.0″, ENV{XAUTHORITY}=”/home/janelle/.Xauthority”, RUN+=”/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0″

Regards,

Jim

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