From 4fcfc4c57f8ed2b7cc12ab7d890f82dd11f78b00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Neumann <mail@richard-neumann.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:22:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added touchpad option.

---
 README.md   |  5 +++--
 tablet-mode | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index af717df..de5a07e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ Allow users to toggle a convertible laptop between laptop and tablet mode.
 
 The keyboard device to be deactivated in tablet mode must be specified in `/etc/tablet-mode.conf`:
 
-    [Device]
+    [Devices]
     keyboard = /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd
+    touchpad = /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse
     
 ## Usage
 
-You must be a member of the group `tablet` to toggle between tablet and laptop mode.
+You must be a member of the group `tablet` to toggle between tablet and laptop mode.  
 You can toggle between tablet and laptop mode by running `toggle-tablet-mode` or use the desktop icon provided with this package.
diff --git a/tablet-mode b/tablet-mode
index 5895387..d4b5c82 100755
--- a/tablet-mode
+++ b/tablet-mode
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 """Grabs the respective device to discard any input from it."""
 
 from configparser import ConfigParser
+from contextlib import suppress
 from subprocess import run
+from threading import Thread
 
 
 CONFIG_FILE = '/etc/tablet-mode.conf'
@@ -15,13 +17,32 @@ def grab_device(device):
     return run((EVTEST, '--grab', device))
 
 
-def get_device():
+def get_devices():
     """Reads the device from the config file."""
 
     parser = ConfigParser()
     parser.read(CONFIG_FILE)
-    return parser['Device']['keyboard']
+
+    with suppress(KeyError):
+        yield parser['Devices']['keyboard']
+
+    with suppress(KeyError):
+        yield parser['Devices']['touchpad']
+
+
+def disable_devices(devices):
+    """Disables the given devices."""
+
+    threads = []
+
+    for device in devices:
+        thread = Thread(target=grab_device, args=[device])
+        threads.append(thread)
+        thread.start()
+
+    for thread in threads:
+        thread.join()
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    grab_device(get_device())
+    disable_devices(get_devices())