dynamic Keyboard activation - desactivation

[Magnus Kessler]

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 15:31:36 MONDON Daniel wrote:
> Hi all !
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> I'am under ubuntu 10.04 live CD.
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> My application doesn't need any keyboard, and I don't want to have one
> because users are not allowed to modify anything.
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> I know I can do that with xorg.conf file, but
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> + I don't want to have to restart
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> + I an under live CD (I have to move the xorg.conf location ... and
> reboot).
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> I think I can do that with udev rules, but I don't find anyone who can
> help me to do that, or any applicable rule sample. :-(
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> Or a simple X command ?
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> Thanks
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> Daniel.


I think Peter Hutterer provided an answer to your question recently on this 
list: See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2010-October/051507.html

In short, if your version of xinput, the device driver and the xorg server is 
new enough you should be able to do:

xinput set-prop <device name> "Device Enabled" 0

HTH,

Magnus