Automatically enable touchpad after suspend

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/usr/bin/restart-touchpad.sh 

#!/bin/bash
echo "Restarting Touchpad just in case"
declare -x DISPLAY=":0.0"
declare -x XAUTHORITY="/home/"$USER"/.Xauthority"
xinput disable 'PNP0C50:00 06CB:CDB0 Touchpad'
xinput enable 'PNP0C50:00 06CB:CDB0 Touchpad'

(you may need to make this file executable with sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/restart-touchpad.sh)


~/.config/systemd/user/restart-touchpad.service

[Unit]
Description=Restart Touchpad
After=basic.target suspend.target hibernate.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restart-touchpad.sh

WantedBy=basic.target suspend.target hibernate.target

Then enable it:

systemctl enable restart-touchpad.service --user --now

Let me know how it goes. I think it should work :grin:

(EDIT - it seems some users may need to replace “$USER” in the above script with their actual username to reflect the actual path, ex: /home/cscs/.Xauthority)

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