Re: How to get touchpad settings back afer (oops!) disabling them?
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 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.)
Ah, yes, that does it, thank you. I'm surprised it worked, I guess
that xinput doesn't need to actually access the display, it just wants
to know which display the mouse should work on.
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Chris Green
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