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authorPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2009-03-03 11:33:23 +1000
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2009-03-04 11:26:49 +1000
commitbc395e89d2629755e199886dcebb38c4964b2cd1 (patch)
tree14ef6208bc0cc4f7d6ea70a3b4bbd8c4396db19e /man/syndaemon.man
parentc256932f635afe62a6ace16f9a5c14f5c2a01fe5 (diff)
syndaemon: use device properties unless SHM is requested.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
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diff --git a/man/syndaemon.man b/man/syndaemon.man
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--- a/man/syndaemon.man
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@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
.SH "SYNTAX"
.LP
syndaemon [\fI\-i idle\-time\fP] [\fI\-d\fP] [\fI\-p pid\-file\fP]
-[\fI\-t\fP] [\fI\-k\fP] [\fI\-K\fP]
+[\fI\-t\fP] [\fI\-k\fP] [\fI\-K\fP] [\fI\-s\fP]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP
Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the
pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window.
.
-This program needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics
-Touchpad configuration.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.LP
.TP
@@ -53,6 +51,13 @@ Like \-k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.
\fB\-R\fP
Disable the use of the XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activity.
This will force the use of polling the keyboard state.
+.LP
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fP
+Use a shared memory area to enable/disable the touchpad instead of device
+properties. WARNING: The SHM mechanism is not secure if you are in an untrusted multiuser
+environment. All local users can change the parameters at any time. This
+option requires the driver Option "SHMConfig" to be enabled.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.LP
.TP