Re: How to get touchpad settings back afer (oops!) disabling them?

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 12:32:10PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2026-07-18 11:56, Chris Green wrote:
> > I run Debian 13 with an xfce4 desktop and I've inadvertently diabled
> > the touchpad settings.
> > 
> > So I can't actually do anything! The touchpad moves the mouse pointer
> > around the screen but clicking on anything does nothing.
> > 
> > How can I reset the touchpad to defaults?
> 
> should add
> Ctrl + Alt + t brings up the virtual terminal.
> 
But that's not a terminal on the X display so xinput doesn't do
anything helpful - it just says "Unable to connect to X server".