17 Sep
2022
17 Sep
'22
1:01 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 23:32 (-0500), J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2022-09-16 20:06:58 James Leone wrote:
In general: xinput set-prop id-number "Device Enabled" 0 Specific example (if I wanted to disable my UVC Camera):
xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0
You need to identify the id-number of the touchpad first.
Steps:
- at the command prompt, use:
<snip>
From the output, determine the id of your device.
Yes, that works. Thank you. Should I put that into my .bashrc, or will it be remembered across logout/ins?
In case James doesn't get back to you soon...
A quick experiment will probably show you that it will not be remembered across logout / logins.
Yes, if you put that command into your .bashrc (assuming you use bash) you should be good to go.
Jim