My touchpad and mouse didn't work

[Máté Kovács]

Hi
Somehow I turned off my touchpad in Qubes, and it get stucked in the middle of the screen.
How can I navigate myself to dom0 console with my notebook's keyboard?

[Hugo Costa]

I usually just restart the computer when something like that happens. But in your case, I'd probably just alt tab into the Qube Manager and go on from there.

[Ivan Mitev]

I also had a stucked pointer a few times for the past 2-3 weeks - don't
know what is triggering it. Instead of rebooting you could try to login
in a text console (eg ctrl-alt-2) and suspend the laptop (`systemctl
suspend`). After resuming I could move the pointer again, maybe it'll
work for you and the OP - rebooting is really painful/slow.

[Máté Kovács]

I made a huge mistake when I tried at the settings how to set up my usb mouse, and I accidentally turned off the touchpad after the arrow of my mouse somehow moved a few millimeters away, and I cannot re enable it again. :/

[Máté Kovács]

At where and when can I login in the text console? After I restarted my computer? Before it asks the disk passphrase?

[Ivan Mitev]

CTRL-ESC should show the qubes menu; use arrows to go into system tools
-> mouse and touchpad, and use arrows/tab/space to change the settings.

Or do you mean that you already did that but that the touchpad is still
disabled ? If so, make sure it is really enabled (as above) and reboot.

[Stuart Perkins]

For a command line console, ctl-alt-F2 (or F3,4,5,6,7) and login with the admin account.

You can do whatever you can do from a command line except start a graphical program.

Stuart