Disabling Touchpad

[onlyTrueAki]

There are several methods for en-/disabling the touchpad on the fly under X11, however all I found concerning the same thing under wayland is that it is up to the compositor.
Currently the only way to disable the touchpad is to just do it in the BIOS, however that means a reboot anytime I want to change the touchpad status.
If anyone has the time and knowhow to implement this I'd greatly appreciate it.

[ddevault]

man sway-input

[gerrard00]

For future web searchers:

swaymsg -t get_inputs

Will let you determine the identifier to use and:

swaymsg input <identifier> events disabled

will disable the device. This is deatils in the man page discussed earlier.

[Michael-AUG]

For future web searchers:

swaymsg -t get_inputs

Will let you determine the identifier to use and:

swaymsg input <identifier> events disabled

will disable the device. This is deatils in the man page discussed earlier.

That's great. Thanks. Will this persist after reboot, or does it need to be set each time?

[RiedleroD]

to catch all touchpads (and not have to grep the ID every time) swaymsg input type:touchpad events disabled

you can do the same in your sway config to make it persist:

input type:touchpad {
  events disabled
}

there's likely already a few lines for input, just put them next to each other for readability of your config.

edit: there's also toggle so if you wanted to toggle the touchpad via e.g. alt+space you could do this in your config: bindsym alt+space exec swaymsg input type:touchpad events toggle - though do note that it toggles between on, off and "off while external mouse is being used"