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Jaakko Seppälä
Asked: 2014-04-19 13:58:10 +0800 CST

Disabling touchpad when desktop starts

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I would like to turn my touchpad off when my desktop starts. How can I do that? I already found that the following script outputs 14:

xinput list | grep -Eo 'TouchPad\s*id\=[0-9]{1,2}' | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}'

But how can I configure my computer such that the script 

xinput set-prop 14 "Device Enabled" 0

would be run when starting XFCE?

scripts

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  1. Best Answer

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    xfce4-session-settings

    Then open the tab "Application Autostart" and click on 'Add'. Alternately you can create a .desktop file and put it in ~/.config/autostart.

    A simple .desktop file could be:

    [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=test
Comment=test
Exec=path_to_script_or_command
Icon=
Terminal=true
StartupNotify=false
Hidden=false
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
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