Disables the touchpad of the Thinkpad X1 Carbon under X11. It probably wroks with other PC too.

desable_touchpad.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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"""
This script disables the touchpad of the Thinkpad X1 Carbon under X11. It
probably works with other PC too.
"""


import subprocess


input_id = subprocess.check_output(["xinput", "list", "--id-only", "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"])
input_id = input_id.strip()

subprocess.check_call(["xinput", "set-prop", input_id, "Device Enabled", "0"])