Re: Touchpad synaptics changes name after resume

[Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com>]

* Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> [22-12/03=Sa 10:37 +0000]:
> $ uname -a
> Linux t440 6.0.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian
> 6.0.3-1~bpo11+1 (2022-10-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I have two scripts that enable/disable touchpad
> [running the commands]
> xinput enable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
> xinput disable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
>
> The problem is that xinput(1) changes the
> name of the touchpad every now and again:
>
> $ dmesg| grep -i synaptics |grep "as /devices"
> [463340.358242] input: Synaptics TM2722-001 as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/i2c-0/0-002c/rmi4-00/input/input319
> [505228.803682] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as
> /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input335
> [505234.019989] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as
> /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input338
>
> [...]

Can $(xinput --list) tell you the current name of the device?
You may have to grep for "Synaptics" in the output.