Disable touchpad while typing automatically

redsearch · 2016-12-29 14:28:16

How to disable touchpad while typing automatically?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-12-29 14:40:38

Add this line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart:

syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &

This should be a commented option in the next release:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … ostart#L45

johnraff · 2016-12-30 01:25:52

^ "should be" in this case meaning "will probably be" rather than "is desired to be".

martix · 2016-12-30 12:13:42

These details make a distro much more polished. Like having the username in the login window on default (if I'm not mistaken, this was the case on #!). Not crucial, but still more convenient.

johnraff · 2016-12-31 09:40:57

martix wrote:

having the username in the login window

It's open to discussion whether there's a possible privacy issue with that, so we've kept with the Debian default.

martix · 2016-12-31 11:15:37

@John Ok, I see. In concreto: Is it about a potential attacker, who knows the username e.g. on a lock-screen, so only the password has to be guessed (instead of username+password)?

Anyhow, it's easy to change: Edit 'greeter hide user' to 'false' in /etc/lightdm.conf as root. Save it, reboot. I like it this way, even though it's indeed less secure, password protection is ok for me.

redsearch · 2017-01-03 13:22:48

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Add this line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart:
syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &
This should be a commented option in the next release:
https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … ostart#L45

I used syndaemon, works great.

johnraff · 2017-01-04 05:47:02

martix wrote:

@John Ok, I see. In concreto: Is it about a potential attacker, who knows the username e.g. on a lock-screen, so only the password has to be guessed (instead of username+password)?

I think it's more about privacy in multi-user systems in an environment where you don't necessarily want every user to know the names of all the other people using the system.

martix · 2017-01-04 19:23:18

@john Indeed, valid point, there is a list of registered user available in the login window. I'm wondering if it would be possible to show only the name of the user who logged in for the session. In that case a log-in after a screen lock would be more convenient without privacy concerns.

johnraff · 2017-01-05 08:09:04

If the above privacy issue is unimportant in your case then you've already posted how to display user names. I don't know of any way to configure LightDm to display only the name of the last logged-in user though.

KrunchTime · 2017-01-22 23:35:12

^ This is Linux. There's gotta be a way, but maybe only programmatically.

martix · 2017-01-24 01:39:03

Yes, I'm sure this will be available some time later. I have seen some posts on other distro's forums where users were trying to figure out such a configuration (without success). At this point of time - as John mentioned - LightDM does not offer this feature yet (at least this is what some research showed me too).

dbvolvox · 2017-02-08 21:53:18

redsearch wrote:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Add this line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart:
syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &
This should be a commented option in the next release:
https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-co … ostart#L45
I used syndaemon, works great.

+1

hhh · 2017-02-12 11:32:22

re: login name autocomplete, we're leaving that for the user to change. A quick web search or forum post will take care of those who find it a nuisance.

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