Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?

[Arthur Miller]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>
>> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 08:24]:
>>> > Some solutions are shown here:
>>> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/886092/how-do-i-disable-the-touchpad-while-typing
>>> >
>>> > First tell what operating system do you use, and if you use X.org or
>>> > what? As solutions vary depending of the environment.
>>> 
>>> Forgott to say: if I got it to work via Emacs, it would be OS independent.
>>
>> Find a way to disable touchpad on command line in Windows, and make
>> equivalent to this function below. Do you have such solution?
>>
>> (defun touchpad-toggle ()
>>   (interactive)
>>   (if touchpad-toggle
>>       (progn
>>      (setq touchpad-toggle nil)
>>      (shell-command "xinput disable 11")
>>      (message "Touchpad disabled"))
>>     (progn
>>       (setq touchpad-toggle t)
>>       (shell-command "xinput enable 11")
>>       (message "Touchpad enabled"))))
>>
>> Then you add some hook or process to monitor 2 seconds or more after
>> typing that it remains disabled.
>
> I know how to call a shell command from Emacs Jean. I don't want to turn
> off and on the touchpad every time I borrow the computer. I will sooner
> or later forgett it and the best of all best ladies will be annoyed why
> her computer does not work any more :). I just want it to now work in
> Emacs, not in other apps. I found disable-mouse by Purcell, I'll see how
> that one works.

disable-mouse works good enough seems like, at least good enough for me,
so I'll go with that. Thanks Purcell!

By the way, I just found a blog post by Malabarba (Endless Parenthesses)
about same issue:

https://endlessparentheses.com/disable-mouse-only-inside-emacs.html