Eratic Cursor Behavior

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:30 -0800, Harold Hallikainen 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?"

That's usually caused by having the touchpad's sensitivity set too high
(so a thump on the keyboard is misinterpreted as a click on the pad).

I'm not sure how to turn that off.

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