Howdy folks,
Happy Maundy Thursday, and a big thanks to stevef for helping me get my mouse turned back on yesterday. I found out that I didn't have a keyboard shortcut programmed in the keyboard settings to get me to the terminal, this made it very difficult to follow all of the advice I was getting as nothing was working. So by trial and error and searching some forum threads I found advice from a fellow HP laptop user to use Alt+F2 that got me to the xfce settings and from there following stevef instructions I was able to turn on the mouse. The first thing I did was go to keyboard shortcuts and set up Ctrl+Alt+T for the terminal, live and learn.
Happy Easter,
