Some touchpads are sensitive to side pressure. So if you rest the heal of your hand on the laptop surface near the touchpad, it might determine there is some touchpad contact that you don't intend.
Also, some touchpad software can have special functions on the edges of the touchpad area. Those can usually be disabled going into the touchpad configuration/properties on the operating system. I have also seen problems of inability to maintain pointer position, and these tend to be sporadic. One thing to do with OpenOffice installed is disable the quick-start functionality and see if that helps. I don't think OO is the problem but it might be a case of too many applications hooked into the input stream. Also, on Windows laptops, you might check to see what applications are in your startup list and see what ones you can disable without any consequence. These will usually be identified as from non-Microsoft sources. Custom screen savers and such, also screen capture utilities might be disturbing things. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:cuyfa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 04:44 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Zooming in 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Felmon Davis F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a dm! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
