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September 25, 2018 14:18
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Disables the touchpad of your laptop if a mouse is connected to it. I have set this script to run on start-up, because most of the times I have a mouse attached and don't want the touchpad enabled.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| read Mouse <<< $( xinput | grep Mouse ) | |
| if [ "$Mouse" = "" ]; then | |
| # No mouse found, so don't disable the TouchPad | |
| exit | |
| else | |
| # Mouse found. Disable the TouchPad | |
| read TPdevice <<< $( xinput | sed -nre '/TouchPad/s/.*id=([0-9]*).*/\1/p' ) | |
| xinput --disable "$TPdevice" | |
| fi |
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