Touchpad Toggle, window tilling and lock session key bindings for Lubuntu

toggletp

#!/bin/bash
synclient TouchpadOff=$(synclient -l | grep -c 'TouchpadOff.*=.*0')

ubuntu-rc.xml

  ...

  <keyboard>
  
  ...
    <!-- toggle tuchpad -->
    <keybind key="XF86TouchpadToggle">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>toggletp</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
  
  ...

    <!-- Keybindings for window tiling -->
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_5">        # HalfLeftScreen
      <action name="ToggleMaximize"/>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_4">        # HalfLeftScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>0</x><y>0</y><height>100%</height><width>50%</width></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_7">        # HalfLeftScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>0</x><y>0</y><height>50%</height><width>50%</width></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_6">        # HalfRightScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>-0</x><y>0</y><height>100%</height><width>50%</width></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_9">        # HalfRightScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>-0</x><y>0</y><height>50%</height><width>50%</width></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_8">        # HalfUpperScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>0</x><y>0</y><width>100%</width><height>50%</height></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_2">        # HalfLowerScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>0</x><y>-0</y><width>100%</width><height>50%</height></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_1">        # HalfLowerScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>0</x><y>-0</y><width>50%</width><height>50%</height></action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="C-A-KP_3">        # HalfLowerScreen
      <action name="UnmaximizeFull"/>
      <action name="MoveResizeTo"><x>-0</x><y>-0</y><width>50%</width><height>50%</height></action>
    </keybind>

  ...

    <!-- Lock the screen on Ctrl + Alt + l-->
    <keybind key="C-A-l">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>lxlock</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

  ...
  
  </keyboard>
  
  ...

This piece of code was so helpful to me

Thanks! 👍

omg that grep -c as a flip-flop is genius. 👍

I'm using AwesomeWM, so to enable the hotkey I had to put the following into my rc.lua (in my globalkeys).

awful.key({}, "XF86TouchpadToggle", function () awful.util.spawn("toggletp") end),