Just a short script I wrote to disable my mouse to get me into better workflow habits

Just a short script I wrote to disable my mouse to get me into better workflow habits - Programming On Unix

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	Wildefyr Offline \| 04-05-2015, 06:50 PM \| #1

Got mad at myself for constantly using the mouse for certain tasks when I can just use the keyboard for it. Wrote this little script to find my mouse and disable me completely from using it. Touched it up a little after to make it auto detect the mouse device and the screen resolution:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

while :; do

    case $1 in

        -e|--enable)

            xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 1

            break

            ;;

        -d|--disable)

            xdotool mousemove $(xrandr | awk '/Screen 0/ {printf "%s",$8 " " $10}' | sed 's/,$//')

            xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 0

            break

            ;;

        *)

            echo "Usage: ./mouse [option]:

-e | --enable: Enable Mouse

-d | --disable: Disable Mouse"

            break

    esac

done

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	venam Offline \| 05-05-2015, 03:29 AM \| #2

Quite useful. Thanks for the script.

	bsdkeith Offline \| 05-05-2015, 07:58 AM \| #3

Why didn't you just unplug it?! ;)

	Wildefyr Offline \| 05-05-2015, 11:41 AM \| #4

(05-05-2015, 07:58 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: Why didn't you just unplug it?! ;)

Too much effort (:

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	Webtm Offline \| 05-05-2015, 11:49 AM \| #5

(05-05-2015, 11:41 AM)Wildefyr Wrote:
(05-05-2015, 07:58 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: Why didn't you just unplug it?! ;)

Too much effort (:

More effort than the amount of finger movements to write the script? :p

	Wildefyr Offline \| 05-05-2015, 12:57 PM \| #6

Well it means I have to get off my chair so most certainly yes. :p

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	S1cK94 Offline \| 06-05-2015, 08:58 AM \| #7

(05-05-2015, 07:58 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: Why didn't you just unplug it?! ;)

Also, it's quite hard to unplug a touchpad

	bsdkeith Offline \| 06-05-2015, 11:23 AM \| #8

Agree, but he did say mouse. ;)

	xero Offline \| 06-05-2015, 12:17 PM \| #9

here's my toggle touch pad script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

#

# enable/disable touchpad

# find your touchpad name:

# egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices

PAD='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'

A=`xinput list-props "$PAD" | sed -n -e 's/.*Device Enabled ([0-9][0-9]*):\t\(.*\)/\1/p' `

if [ $A -eq 1 ]; then

xinput set-int-prop "$PAD" "Device Enabled" 8 0

notify-send -t 5000 \

'   touchpad 

░░▒▒▓▓██▓▓▒▒░░' \

'   disabled'

else

xinput set-int-prop "$PAD" "Device Enabled" 8 1

notify-send -t 5000 \

'   touchpad 

░░▒▒▓▓██▓▓▒▒░░' \

'   enabled'

fi

	bsdkeith Offline \| 07-05-2015, 05:51 AM \| #10

Now that could be handy when you don't want an accidental brushing of the touchpad to interupt your keyboarding on a laptop. (Thanks for posting.)

	xero Offline \| 07-05-2015, 02:17 PM \| #11

(07-05-2015, 05:51 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: Now that could be handy when you don't want an accidental brushing of the touchpad to interupt your keyboarding on a laptop. (Thanks for posting.)

that's it exactly for me. my touchpad is positioned in a way that this was very frequent. so i made the above script and bound it to MOD+M. so i just toggle it on when i need it, then toggle it back off again when i'm done.

	Wildefyr Offline \| 11-05-2015, 02:25 AM \| #12

Made the script use wmp (from wmutils) and it performs much better than using xdotool:

Code:
while :; do

    case $1 in

        -e|--enable)

            wmp 960 540

            xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 1

            break

            ;;

        -d|--disable)

            wmp $(xrandr | awk '/Screen 0/ {printf "%s",$8 " " $10}' | sed 's/,$//')

            xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 0

            break

            ;;

        *)

            echo "Usage: ./mouse [option]:

-e | --enable: Enable Mouse

-d | --disable: Disable Mouse"

            break

    esac

done

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	Wildefyr Offline \| 30-06-2015, 09:23 PM \| #13

Minor upgrade to make it not use xrandr and instead use the base 'root' window. Yay for wmutils!

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# File       : /home/wildefyr/.fyre/scripts/mouse

# Maintainer : Wildefyr | http://wildefyr.net

# Copyright  : Wildefyr | Licensed under the WTFPL license.

case $1 in

    -e|--enable)

        wmp 870 1040

        xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 1

        break

        ;;

    -d|--disable)

        ROOT=$(lsw -r); SW=$(wattr w $ROOT); SH=$(wattr h $ROOT); wmp $SW $SH

        xinput set-int-prop $(xinput | awk '/Mouse/ {printf "%s",$9}' | sed 's/id=//') "Device Enabled" 8 0

        break

        ;;

    *)

        echo "Usage: ./mouse [option]:

-e | --enable: Enable Mouse

-d | --disable: Disable Mouse"

        break

esac

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	October \| 01-07-2015, 05:08 PM \| #14

Interesting, will have to try it later. I am guilty of sometimes using the arrows keys in vim.

	bsdkeith Offline \| 02-07-2015, 06:01 AM \| #15

(01-07-2015, 05:08 PM)October Wrote: Interesting, will have to try it later. I am guilty of sometimes using the arrows keys in vim.

Sacriledge! :)

	Wildefyr Offline \| 20-01-2016, 01:08 AM \| #16

Been thinking over mouse control recently more and used the remains of this script to help power my mouse control in fyre. Here's an example.

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