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11-15-2018, 02:40 PM
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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?
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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...
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I have to agree with firenice - I get this happening when I forget to disable the trackpad!
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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!
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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)
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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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(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.
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-t...-properly/ and I don't know if it will help you resolving your issue but it might worth trying.
Hope this helps!
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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.
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I have this happening on my Desktop computer.
