Eratic Cursor Behavior

[Mark Knecht]

On 11/9/05, Harold Hallikainen <harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: karlp at ourldsfamily.com [mailto:karlp at ourldsfamily.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 09:15 PM
> >> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> >> Subject: Eratic Cursor Behavior
> >>
> >> FC4
> >> KDE
> >>
> >> Occasionally, and I can't replicate it so know this is a stretch to
> >> ask..., when I am using my mouse to raise windows (mouseover mode, not
> >> click), or even when playing a game, any game, the cursor will disappear
> >> from before my eyes and appear in a corner of the screen. Not having the
> >> best of eyes, sometimes it takes a moment longer than is comfortable to
> >> locate the cursor so I can get back to entertaining myself...
> >>
> >> What types of things should/could I look for? Could it be a poor, or
> >> mismatched driver in XF86Config?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Karl Pearson
> >> Senior Consulting Sys/DB Analyst
> >> http://consulting.ourldsfamily.com
> >> ---
> >>
> >
> > I've seen this before as well.  I'm not entirely sure what causes it, but
> > I've seen it both on Linux (several distros) and Windows (several
> > versions).  The only commonality I can seem to find is that everytime it
> > happens to me I'm using an optical mouse.  Bad driver?  Spurious signal
> > from the optical device itself?  I haven't a clue, and I feel your pain.
> > Working late at night or at the end of a long day is not the time for
> > mouse pointers to be pulling practical jokes ;)
> >
> > -Mike
>
>
> Running FC4-64 on my new HP laptop, the touchpad has a tendency to decide
> I've clicked something. It mostly tends to run Firefox back several pages.
> What config file do I modify to disable this "feature?"
>
> THANKS!
>
> Harold
>

I had this problem on my Compaq laptop. I'd be typing and some weird
selection would happen. It turned out my thumb was forever barely
touching the touchpad and the system was reacting to that. The Compaq
had a button near the touch pad to disable the pad completely. Once
turned off I had no problems. It was a nice feature as every once in
awhile I'd find I needed it for something and I could just turn it on.

I've had the mouse drifting problem, but only on my Mac Mini and only
from the Might Mouse I bought from Apple. I returned it and,
sacrilegiously, use my old M$ Optical Mouse on the Mac now. It works
great.


Cheers,
Mark