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

Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:37:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 13:58:11 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 12:32:10PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:
> > 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".

In that case, you should be able to do:

    export DISPLAY=:0
    xinput list

and so on.  (Assuming bash or zsh is your shell, not some csh variant.)