How to create script that toggles one value in synclient?

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I use synclient touchpadoff=1 to disable touchpad and synclient touchpadoff=0 to enable touchpad.

$synclient | grep TouchpadOff
    TouchpadOff             = 1

I'd like to create script that will toggle this value. Then I will bind to key in OpenBox.

January · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10 09:12:21Z

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How about

if synclient -l | egrep "TouchpadOff.*= *0" ; then 
    synclient touchpadoff=1 ; 
else 
    synclient touchpadoff=0 ; 
fi

Note that there is a third setting, "TouchpadOff = 2", where only tapping is disabled.

Another possibility, a oneliner, but not a very efficient one:

synclient touchpadoff=`{ synclient -l | egrep "TouchpadOff.*= *0" && echo 1 ; } || echo 0`

edited Oct 10 at 9:12

answered Oct 10 at 8:56

January
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Thx, didn't know about egrep. Btw is it possible to create oneliner? – Miro Oct 10 at 9:07

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