Input Device Indicator

This app is an indicator to help you disable/enable input devices (such as keyboards, mouses and trackpads).

How to Use

You just need to invoke input-device-indicator. (We do want to be able to invoke it from a menu item or a launcher when pressing Super but we did not manage to do it so far. Any help is welcome.)

Once activated, there will be an icon (a cat on a keyboard) on your indicators. Click on it and a list of devices will appear. Just click on the one you want to disable or enable:

For those more used to technicalities, it can be useful to know this indicator is basically a wrapper around xinput: the devices come from the output of xinput list --long, and we disable/enable them with xinput disable/xinput enable.

Development Tips

If you want to change Input Device Indicator's source code, once you cloned the repository, you will need to install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

To test the package locally, you can leverage our Makefile by invoking the install_local target:

$ make install_local

To publish a release in the PPA, we use the publish target. Of course, you need to have the right permissions etc.

$ make publish

Why?

Because of this:

Licensing

Input Device Indicator

Input Device Indicator is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.

Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Icons

(The icon is a mashup of this icon and this icon found on Wikimedia Commons, licensed under Apache License 2.0.)

Copyright 2020 Adam Victor Brandizzi

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