On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:47 PM, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an Inspiron 1525. Had it for a few months- always as I type the > cursor sometimes flies backwards or upwards to a different part of the text- > it happens so often that I am on the verge to throwing the thing out. Is it > the computer or as a friend suggests could it be Ubuntu? > Any suggestions? Any solutions? >
I'm always having this problem. The touchpad likes to detect the palm of your hand as you type, causing the cursor to get up to all kinds of mischief. I found a handy tool that will disable the touchpad while you are typing, this solved the problem for me completely. A guide to using it is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#Disabling%20the%20Touchpad%20Temporarily%20While%20Typing For the record, I use this (slightly modified) command: syndaemon -d -i 3 -t -k Unlike the example given in the link above it increases the delay to 3 seconds rather than 1 (the -i 3), it allows the cursor to still be moved, but only disables taps (the -t) and finally the -k tells it to not count ctrl, alt, etc. as keypresses (so you can still hold down ctrl and click on something, it won't disable the touchpad). All these are just my own personal preference, I'm sure you'll find yours :) Hope this helps, Matthew. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
