Thread: Cursor moving around this screen

Hello,all


When I type the arrow suddenly jumps to another position, usually few lines above and suddenly you will type in between lines in which you have already written.

I have it before but I do not have any solution to get out of it. It is just a buggy drivers or its interaction with your machine. Can you tell me when it happens?

I think your palm of your hand must be touching the touchpad as you type. I suggest you to cover the touchpad with something like credit card and see if it helps.

It has happened many times. I don’t think it is the touchpad, it moves the mouse pointer around and not the text cursor. And the position of my hands when I type means I don’t really ever touch the touchpad.

My Averatec 3270 did that on occasion under windows, but it does it all the time under Linux. I think it is related to the touchpad… if I disable the touchpad, it stops happening.

I think you should the easy things first. You should try the Logitech mouse and see if the problem goes away.

You will have to disable the touchpad and your curser problem will go away.

You can find the curser while typing under the mouse pad settings… when you finish typing just touch the pad… you can even check box that hit ctrl and the curser will return…

My new Dell Inspiration 600m has two mouse hardware listings. One is HID mouse which appears to be my Dell external optical mouse and the other is called PS/2 well-matched mouse.

It doesn’t mind I can reboot my Dell using F2 key for setup. There I switched to Serial for my USB only mouse and saved.