https://github.com/zyga/vaiop-touchpoint-control

Automatic control of VAIO-P built-in "mouse" when external mouse is present
https://github.com/zyga/vaiop-touchpoint-control

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Automatic control of VAIO-P built-in "mouse" when external mouse is present

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zyga/vaiop-touchpoint-control
• Owner: zyga
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2014-04-12T10:57:17.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-04-12T13:39:00.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T03:39:54.967Z (7 months ago)
• Size: 145 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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VAIO-P Touchpoint Control

=========================

This repository contains two small Upstart jobs (for Ubuntu and other systems

running upstart as session init) that detect the insertion and removal of

external mouse and in turn disable and enable the built-in touchpoint/touchpad

of the 2nd-gen VAIO-P laptops.

Why?

====

VAIO-P touchpoints are notoriously broken. Even the official warranty specifies

that they may "move uncontrollably" and this is "normal operation". In practice

many VAIO-P owners resort to external mouse and disable the utterly broken

internal mouse all the time.

This tiny project makes that process automatic, whenever an external mouse is

plugged in the built-in "mouse" is automatically disabled. When the external

mouse is removed the built-in "mouse" is re-enabled.

Installation

============ 

On Ubuntu 14.04 you can just use my PPA:

```

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zkrynicki/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install vaiop-touchpoint-control

```

As a quick alternative to adding yet-another-ppa just clone this repository,

run 'dpkg-buildpackage' and install the resulting package on your system.