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

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:07:16 +0100
Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> 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 
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>
> > 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

I was about to say the same thing .


As i suffer from the self same problem it is the track pad on this
laptop that causes my problem, I now use a piece of cardboard to cover
the track pad most of the time  .

Problem fixed ..



Pete .


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