I've had the zooming problem before, too, but only with LyX, not OO. I've
noticed it happens when I drag my finger along the touchpad in just the
right direction at just the right place. But, I've had a very hard time
trying to duplicate it, and for whatever reason, it hasn't happened to me in
a long time.
I have a Sony Vaio with Win7. I've had other touchpad issues. I've found a
few ways of dealing with them.
1. Before I do any typing, I place the mouse cursor in a benign part of the
screen so that, if I brush the touchpad nothing will happen. Usually, I put
it in a blank part of the menu.
2. You can disable the touchpad tapping feature by going into the Control
Panel, Hardware and Settings, Mouse, Tapping. With tapping disabled, you'll
have to actually click the touchpad buttons instead of just tapping the pad.
It's a bit of a pain, but the trade off is that you don't get the unwanted
tapping.
While this may help with inadvertent tapping issues, I'm not sure will will
help with the zooming, but I could be wrong. However, as others have said, I
don't think it's an OO issue, but rather a system issue.
Virgil
-----Original Message-----
From: Felmon Davis
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:12 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Zooming in
On Wed, 8 May 2013, Dale Erwin wrote:
I have the same problem. It used to be much worse, but I found a setting
in the mouse/touchpad driver that disables the touchpad whenever another
pointing device is plugged in. After bootup is complete, I now get a
message on my desktop that the touchpad has been disabled. However, the
mouse still does not behave very well. I can sit back and take my hands
off the computer altogether and watch the cursor dance around all over the
screen. Sometimes it's worse than at others, but it always does a little
dancing. It's especially annoying when trying to place the pointer on a
certain place and before I can click it moves away all on its own so I
back it up and it jumps again. Sometimes it makes me want to scream.
Mine's a Dell with Win 7 Home Prem.
you don't say if you have researched the issue. I took a quick look
online and one possibility among several is a driver conflict. another
is a need for an updated driver (to be downloaded from the input
manufacturer's website).
were it me, I'd first update the drivers and see; then I'd go to
device manager and stop a driver (e.g. wifi) and see what happens and
repeat systematically to see if anything helps.
but guess this is off-topic for this list; sure hope you find a
solution. I wouldn't live with the situation.
here is the first link I found on the matter
<http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/51501-cursor-jumps-all-over-screen-3.html>
(interestingly one person found it was a charger issue!)
you might also search for the problem referencing your specific laptop
model. probably others with the same problem and a fix.
F.
Dale Erwin
Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03
Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
http://leather.casaerwin.org
On 5/7/2013 9:07 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote:
My computer zooms in on OpenOffice (and other) screens without my telling
it to.
(I have a laptop with touchpad). I know it has something to do with the
way I'm using my fingers on the touchpad but I can't quite figure out how
to avoid it.
Is there any way I can disable this feature? It drives me crazy.
(It happens with other programs too.)
Thanks,
Pat
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