michael-coleman/xpm

xpm - X Pointer Manager

Why is this needed?

The underlying command which xpm uses to configure the X device wrapper xinput --set-prop is a single, rather simple-ish command line command.

So why not just run this command directly? 2 reasons.

1. xinput --set-prop ... requires, as part of its command, an identifier for the target device.
   To get this identifier means running and manually interpreting the output of xinput --list, then running a command to set your desired properties.
   The is additionally complicated when you have a combo keyboard/mouse USB device which actually exposes 2 X input devices under the same identifier.
2. On top of that, this identifier changes when:

• The system is rebooted
• You plug in or un-plug your USB mouse
• Possibly (not 100% sure about this) when a laptop resumes after a suspend.

Usage

Get a copy of xpm

recommend you put xpm into a directory ~/.zsh/xpm

mkdir -p ~/.zsh && git clone https://github.com/michael-coleman/xpm.git  ~/.zsh/xpm

You tell it by way of a configuration file, config.zsh a unique identifier of a X pointer device you want configured.
create a file: config.zsh in the xpm directory with contents something like:

xpm_devices=( 
    "Logitech USB Receiver"
    "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
)

Then source ~/.zsh/xpm/xpm.zsh from your ~/.zshrc. you should now have a command/function: xpm_status