So I recently wrote a script that toggles my laptop's touchpad on or off using xinput, and it works beautifully when run from terminal. I was attempting to set this script to auto-run whenever my mouse is plugged in, but it seems to be running the script (echo statements I put in the script for debugging are working) without actually disabling the touchpad. I am using halevt to detect the device and launch the command, so I assume I am doing something wrong with halevt and permissions. Any ideas?
The Script:
The command to launch halevt:Code:# toggleTouchpad by Brendon Dugan # Toggles a touchpad on or off depending on it's current state or CLI argument # # To configure, run the command 'xinput list' in terminal and identify your touch pad. # Using the output of the above command, change the touchpadString variable to a substring # of your touchpad's description that is unique to that device. # # To run, simply type 'toggleTouchpad' to toggle your touchpad on or off, or # 'toggleTouchpad on' to explicitly turn your touchpad on, or # 'toggleTouchpad off' to explicitly turn it off. # # Enjoy! touchpadString="TouchPad" touchpadID=$(xinput list | grep $touchpadString | awk -F " " '{print $6}' | awk -F "=" '{print $2}') touchpadEnabled=$(xinput list-props $touchpadID | grep "Device Enabled" | awk -F ":" '{print $2}') # Check for arguments on the command line if test $# -eq 1 then # Change the argument to lowercase arg1=$(echo $1 | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]) cliArg=1 else # There is no argument. cliArg=0 fi if [ $cliArg -eq 1 ] then # If there's an argument, check to see whether it is on, off, or junk if [ $arg1 = 'on' ] then # The argument was 'on', so turn the touchpad on xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 1 echo "ON" elif [ $arg1 = 'off' ] then # The argument was 'off', so turn the touchpad off xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 0 echo "OFF" else # The argument was junk, so do nothing sleep 1 fi else # There was no argument, so just toggle the touchpad to the opposite # of the state it has now. if [ $touchpadEnabled -eq 1 ] then xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 0 else xinput --set-prop $touchpadID "Device Enabled" 1 fi fi
The halevt config file:Code:sudo halevt -u brendon -g brendon -c /home/brendon/.halevt.xml
Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <halevt:Configuration version="0.1" xmlns:halevt="http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/halevt.html"> <halevt:Device match="hal.info.udi = /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c70e_00076142E023"> <halevt:Insertion exec="/home/brendon/bin/toggleTouchpad off"/> <halevt:Removal exec="/home/brendon/bin/toggleTouchpad on"/> </halevt:Device> </halevt:Configuration>
Adv Reply
Originally Posted by ziekfiguur
Bookmarks