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

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 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".

  DISPLAY=:0 xinput

(Character set might be a bit garbled, though)

Wayland, take that!

;-)

Cheers
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t

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