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

On 2026-07-18 14:34, [email protected] wrote:
> 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".

Debian 13 and Xfce 4.20 here and "Ctrl+Alt+t" brings up a terminal 
emulator on the laptop desktop with focus.
mick





>   DISPLAY=:0 xinput
> 
> (Character set might be a bit garbled, though)
> 
> Wayland, take that!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Cheers