Touchpad Mouse Jumps All Over

David-P · 2012-09-30 06:50:33

Whenever I right click, or do something else my mouse jumps randomly.

I've searched and searched, and can't find a solution sad

My laptop is a Pavilion g7, and uses synaptic.

Last edited by David-P (2012-09-30 06:50:45)

wuxmedia · 2012-09-30 09:17:22

is a part of your hand touching the pad?
is the right click a real button, or a pad area?
maybe the button touches the pad?

generally people have a problem with typing.

search 'synclient' in the search box.

Good Luck

David-P · 2012-09-30 13:22:48

wuxmedia wrote:

is a part of your hand touching the pad?
is the right click a real button, or a pad area?
maybe the button touches the pad?
generally people have a problem with typing.
search 'synclient' in the search box.
Good Luck

Thanks..
My hand isn't touching the pad, I'm pretty sure.
It is a real button, no the touchpad is a good ways seperated

No problems with typing after I disabled tapping. Clearly a touchpad sensitivity issue, but I have no idea where to start to fix it.

shengchieh · 2012-10-02 02:34:45

What happens if you use an USB mouse? You can find out if the problem is hardware or software.

Sheng-Chieh

David-P · 2012-10-02 02:42:27

shengchieh wrote:

What happens if you use an USB mouse? You can find out if the problem is hardware or software.
Sheng-Chieh

I'll try a USB Mouse the next two days.

Seems to be getting easier, getting used to the settings. (I came from Windows, so the acceleration is a bit different).

wuxmedia · 2012-10-02 07:56:39

for a gui; type in a terminal;

sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

this should get you going, iirc the changes take place immediately, and can't remember if theres a 'reset to default' button.
if you want to get your hands dirty synclient has millions of options... try 'man synclient' for the manual, (works for most other commands too)

good luck glasses

lcafiero · 2012-10-03 06:16:59

A question -- do you have a touchpad that has a scroll bar on one of the sides (like the right side of the touchpad)? I seem to recall having to disable this on a laptop once, and I'm trying to find how I did that, and that seemed to stop the mysterious wandering of the cursor.

I think I did that using one of these:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/touchpad_disabling

Just throwing that out there in case that's a possibility.

CrunchBang Linux

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