I now work from a home office - much to the delight of my cats. One in particular likes to come for a hug several times a day. That in itself is fine but he tends to sit on my laptop keyboard whilst I'm working on my desktop and vice-versa. Also he'll walk across any keyboard I'm actually using at the time.

I've found Pawsense and would like to know if anyone can suggest a Linux equivalent (or some incantations to achieve the same).

Training him out of sitting on the keyboard is likely to prove fruitless (a suggested here). He's far more pig-headed than I am.

This conversation discusses some utilities like xlock et al but I'd prefer if possible to have something more along the lines of Pawsense that doesn't lock the keyboard but "simply" intercepts cat-like typing.

Thanks