touchpadctl

A little utility which controls touchpad of laptops.

Have you been annoyed by the flying cursor while typing when accidentally hit the touchpad? If so, try it.

Supporting

• Gnome Wayland (by gsettings)
• Gnome X11 (by gsettings, untested)
• KDE
• Hyprland
• ...

Requirements

• fishshell

Installation

git clone https://github.com/lialh4qwq/touchpadctl.git
cd touchpadctl
sudo mv touchpadctl.fish /usr/local/bin/touchpadctl
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/touchpadctl
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/touchpadctl

Usage

simply run in shell

touchpadctl <toggle|enable|disable>

or bind it to a shortcut by your DE's settings. for example

gnome:

Settings → Keyboard → View and Custom Shortcuts → Custom shortcuts → "+"

or anyhow you like

Enjoy!

Todo

• Support more DE/WM like KDE, Hyprland, etc.
• Support disable touchpad by xinput to work in generic X11 environments
• More complete and user-friendly CLI interface, supporting operating in specific method
• Config file support that defining default behavior
• Daemon mode for DE/WM that can't handle shortcuts

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