(08-27-2017, 07:56 AM)daid Wrote: I don't run the script with sudo, shouldn't be needed, as user you should be able to do what it needs to do...

(08-28-2017, 02:28 AM)daid Wrote: Or add your user to the group "input"?

• go to System>Preferences>Personal>Startup Applications in the menu at the top of the screen
  
• you will now see a window showing all the existing startup applications, and allowing you to add new ones (button marked +ADD)
  
• this window has 3 boxes t type in:
  
• Name - you can put anything you like in here- it's just the title of the startup (I called it MouseCalmer)
  
• Command - this is the important bit - I put   sudo python3 /usr/local/bin/touchpadsleep.py
  

• Comment - anything you want - I described what the application is doing uses touchpadsleep to pause mouse on keystroke
  

• Press Save
  

• I've used Python 3
  
• I saved the python script as touchpadsleep.py in /usr/local/bin
  
• This won't work yet! Because the command 'sudo' will want to ask for your password and becuse it is running automatically, you can't type it in.
  
• There is a way to allow only python3 to run only touchpadsleep.py without a password.  You do this by editing a special file called sudoers.  If not done correctly, this can break your installation of Ubuntu (or any linux) but there is a safe way to do it.
  

• Open a terminal by pressing <ctrl><alt><t>
  
• in the terminal, type sudo visudo - visudo is a special editor which will protect against accidental errors in sudoers and only save a valid version
  
• Add the following lines near the end of the file, after any other similar lines.
  

• Press <ctrl><X>
  
• Answer Y when sked to save
  
• Don't change the file name visudo wants to save (/etc/sudoers.tmp)  - just press <enter>
  

• in sudoers, any line starting with # does nothing and is just for documentation
  
• paul is my username, as you might expect, just substitute your own when you do this
  
• I discovered this only works if the full paths to both python3 and touchpadsleep.py these may be different on your system
  

(11-23-2017, 08:51 PM)southern.cross Wrote: Has anyone gotten this script to work in the Armbian OS for Pinebook? I get the following errors when I try to use it:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 914, in _bootstrap_inner
   self.run()
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862, in run
   self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
 File "touchpadsleep.py", line 312, in timeoutThread
   device_number = self.findXInputDeviceNumber()
 File "touchpadsleep.py", line 303, in findXInputDeviceNumber
   res = subprocess.run(["/usr/bin/xinput", "list"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 693, in run
   with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
   restore_signals, start_new_session)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
   raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/xinput'