Re: [libreoffice-users] Jumping cursor

At 13:18 24/02/2016 -0500, Charles Mwrote:
> I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop (about 7 years 
> old) running Windows 7. It runs fine and I have 
> no issues with it. However, when I type in text 
> in a blank document in either Libre Writer or 
> Word 2003 I'll complete a sentence or so and 
> then suddenly the cursor and the last few 
> characters I typed jumps somewhere else in the 
> plain text document. I'm not hitting 
> (intentionally) any key to make it do that ­ it 
> just jumps around the document at will. It never 
> does that on the desktop in Libre or Word 
> suggesting it may be a Toshiba or laptop 
> phenomena. Has anyone ever encountered this and if so how did you fix it?

Yes, I've certainly seen this happen. You may not 
believe this, but when you type you are probably 
allowing some part of your anatomy - probably 
your thumb - occasionally to graze across the 
laptop's trackpad. A touch, of course, instantly 
moves the cursor to some random position, and 
your typing continues there instead of where you 
meant it to be. The irony is that if you try to 
watch yourself doing it, you will be 
concentrating on the trackpad and you won't touch 
it. You will need to get someone else to watch 
your thumb as you concentrate on the keyboard or 
screen whilst typing in order to confirm what is happening.

The solution is very simple: you can adjust the 
properties of the trackpad. The settings will be 
accessible from the Windows Control Panel - 
probably as an extra tab in the Mouse section. 
You will almost certainly find that you can make 
the trackpad less sensitive. In addition, you may 
be able to set the trackpad to be automatically 
totally insensitive whilst you are typing. You 
mat want to adjust either or both: experiment 
with the settings until you achieve what you need.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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