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Text cursor jumps to other place at times - TMG1961 - 11-15-2018

I got a irritating problem. When typing my cursor jumps for no reason at all to another place in the text sometimes. This is making a mess of what i am typing. I thought it was a problem wih=th previous laptop but the new one has the same. It doesnt do it all the time. Anyone any idea were to look for an answer to the problem?

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - firenice03 - 11-15-2018

Sometimes is a simple as brushing against the 'mouse/track pad'.. Disabling the pad especially if using an external mouse would help. Some laptops (hp's) have in upper left corner a light that if double tapped in this corner will illuminate, informing the pad has been disabled.

In the mouse settings I believe there is an option.. something like "disable when usb connected"...

Might be the easy spot to start...

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - Searchernow - 11-15-2018

I have to agree with firenice - I get this happening when I forget to disable the trackpad!

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - justme2 - 11-15-2018

I too have this problem on every laptop which has a trackpad. I seem to remember that disabling the pad did not stop the problem, but I will now make a point of double checking because it is annoying when the cursor jumps elsewhere!

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - TMG1961 - 11-15-2018

I have the trackpad disabled but that doesnt stop it from happening.Funny thing is that i dont have it on windows 10 (laptop is dual boot)

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - Moltke - 11-15-2018

(11-15-2018, 02:40 PM)TMG1961 link Wrote:I got a irritating problem. When typing my cursor jumps for no reason at all to another place in the text sometimes. This is making a mess of what i am typing. I thought it was a problem wih=th previous laptop but the new one has the same. It doesnt do it all the time. Anyone any idea were to look for an answer to the problem?

Typing where? In terminal? Writer? Mousepad? Browser? All and every app that supports text input?

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - TMG1961 - 11-15-2018

In browser, text documents, writer, in everything were you can enter text. Happens completely at random, sometimes notting and other times i am more busy correcting the text due to the jumping cursor then anything else.

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - Moltke - 11-15-2018

(11-15-2018, 08:52 PM)TMG1961 link Wrote:In browser, text documents, writer, in everything were you can enter text. Happens completely at random, sometimes notting and other times i am more busy correcting the text due to the jumping cursor then anything else.

Oh well that's annoying indeed...While googling on touch/trackpad issues on Linux, I found that several ones have been reported on this matter under Ubuntu 18.04 which is the one LL 4.2 is based upon. I found this article https://sangams.com.np/fix-ubuntu-18-4-touchpad-not-working-properly/ and I don't know if it will help you resolving your issue but it might worth trying.

Hope this helps! Smile

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - TMG1961 - 11-15-2018

(11-15-2018, 09:06 PM)Moltke link Wrote:[quote author=TMG1961 link=topic=6002.msg44462#msg44462 date=1542315160]
In browser, text documents, writer, in everything were you can enter text. Happens completely at random, sometimes notting and other times i am more busy correcting the text due to the jumping cursor then anything else.

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I did read the article and the packages are installed. What i did do was check the box to disable touchpad while typing, that was not enbaled before.

Re: Text cursor jumps to other place at times - bitsnpcs - 11-15-2018

I have this happening on my Desktop computer.