Disable laptop keyboard?

Aurora
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Hello . . . I have recently installed aurora onto my laptop,and I would like to know how to disable my laptop keyboard.

My laptop keyboard is broken,and occasionally types random characters. I have an external keyboard, but I cant put it ontop of my laptop because that types on my laptop keyboard aswell. I do not have anywhere else to put it making it hard to type things on my laptop. . .

Does anybody know how to disable the internal keyboard? I tried a script (manage-kwin-input-devices) but it did not work,even on root. I cannot find anything else online to disable the keyboard, please help.

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Might be better to post in the Fedora forums since your question is probably more generically Fedora. Sorry couldn’t be more help. IDK on your question.

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If you’re okay with disabling it persistently, and not with a script to easily enable/disable it on demand, you can set up a udev rule to not treat the device as an input at all.

Find the 1234:5678 device ID of your keyboard with sudo libinput list-devices.

$ sudo libinput list-devices

[...]

Device:                  ThinkPad Extra Buttons                                             
Kernel:                  /dev/input/event7
Id:                      host:17aa:5054       
Group:                   10                                                                 
Seat:                    seat0, default   
Capabilities:            keyboard

[...]

This is not really a keyboard but imagine it is. The device ID is on the Id: line and is here 17aa:5054.

Create a file containing the following and save it as /etc/udev/rules.d/99-disable-keyboard.rules:

ACTION!="remove", KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", \
   ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="17aa", \
   ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="5054", \
   ENV{ID_INPUT}=""

…replacing the 17aa and 5054 to match your device. I believe the indentation of the ENV lines is required.

Then re-read the rules and apply them.

sudo udevadm control --reload
sudo udevadm trigger

If it doesn’t work, check the systemd journal for errors. Perhaps there’s a syntax error in the .rules file?

journalctl -n500

If everything seems okay, just restart the machine in case a reboot was required. I don’t know enough to say if it should be.