Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Same bug in Fresh and Still

Also look out for keyboard keys that stick.

Detach keyboard and carefully vacuum with 'dusting brush' attachment, 
trying to find a 'key' in a half full vacuum cleaner bag is not fun.



On 9/23/2015 8:07 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 02:13 23/09/2015 -0500, Julio Saleme wrote:
> > I was using the Fresh 5.0.1 version and encounter two bugs in Writer
> >
> > 1) at random times when I'm typing the text move to two or three 
> > lines above.
> > 2) random black selection shadow appears as I'm writing, when 
> > correcting a text and start erasing everything instead of editing (As 
> > shown in the picture)
>
> Attached files are removed by the mailing list processor before 
> messages are distributed. So no-one will have seen your picture.
>
> > So I downgraded to the stable version of Still 4.4.5 but the same two 
> > bugs happen. How to fix it?
>
> It's possible that this is not a software bug and has nothing to do 
> with LibreOffice. Are you perhaps using a system - probably a notebook 
> - with a touch-sensitive trackpad? if so, it is quite possible that 
> you are touching the trackpad with part of your hand - perhaps your 
> thumb - or dragging it over the trackpad whilst you are typing. These 
> actions will respectively move the cursor position or select a region 
> of text, producing exactly the effects you describe. The fact that it 
> occurs with different software versions provides extra evidence for 
> this diagnosis. You notice it in LibreOffice because that is the 
> application you mostly use.
>
> You will probably find it difficult to believe that you are doing 
> this, but I can assure you that I have watched people doing exactly 
> this! Since you are concentrating on typing, you will not be aware of 
> exactly what your thumb is doing. Get someone to watch you typing in 
> order to be convinced. If this is your problem, you will find that you 
> can adjust the sensitivity of the trackpad; this setting will be in 
> your operating system (in Control Panel? under Mouse?), not in 
> LibreOffice. If you reduce the sensitivity sufficiently, you should 
> find this problem goes away.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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