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Here's a little yad gui that will enable or disable devices (i.e. touchpad). I started to write this as a gui for xinput but I know Wayland doesn't use that so this should work for everyone.

Devices that are enabled will show enabled in the combobox and the other option will be "disable".
Devices that are disabled will show disabled in the combobox and the other option will be "enable".

Change the options that you want and click ok.

0.2 - if xinput is installed you'll have to select to use or not and then the main gui will popup. Make your changes and then you can click the test button to test your changes and you'll get a 30 second countdown. After 30 seconds your changes will revert. You can click the revert button on the countdown gui to immediately revert or click the keep button to keep your changes.

0.3 bugfix and some improvements

0.4 added a switch to xinput or non-xinput button and some other improvements.

0.5 bugfix

0.6 code clean up

Thanks, that looks useful.

Hmmm... my PC uses 1 keyboard and 1 mouse. Can be tricky to find them in the list and can be easy to disable the wrong one, which would leave the system without any input device = not operational anymore.
Maybe it would help to limit the list to input devices with which the user interacts and ignore adapters and virtual devices? Just a thought...

With use_xinput=false I can't see any keyboard:

Or....have a simple mode and an advanced mode with all devices. And a checkbox for timeout on reboot or re-login before activation, giving time to restore a device in case all were disabled.

Disabled all audio devices (see 2nd screenshot). Output through front headphone continued

I'm not sure I want to do anything else with this. It does what I need it to do but I can see how someone may disable the wrong thing and have to reboot. If anyone wants to add code to this feel free. I've got other things that I want to spend my time on.

Scratch that, I'll do an 0.2 version later today. I thought of some things to easily implement.

0.2 is up

@MochiMoppel, I think I may have figured out why your audio device wasn't disabled. I'll do an 0.3 update sometime today. The other pitfall of this program is disabling something that appears in the xinput list and the non-xinput list which will only show disabled in the gui that you've disabled it in and not the other. I'll implement a warning message if the program finds that when you run the other version of the gui.

0.3 is up

0.4 is up. I think I'm done with this now unless someone finds a bug.

0.5 bugfix is up

0.6 is up