Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> 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. -- Chris Green ยท
