G1G1, Joyride 1971. Was visiting a friend. Apparently, he keeps his house less humid than mine. Noticed that when I waved my hand in the air some two inches above the touchpad, the cursor (e.g., in Terminal) would move around uncontrollably, and even jump.
In fact, I had difficulty controlling cursor movement when using a finger on the touchpad. The cursor would move, but would typically be only halfway across the screen by the time my finger had reached the touchpad edge. When I would lift the finger (to reposition it for a repeat movement), the cursor would jump backward or sideways. (Also, sometimes when I was touching the pad, the cursor would not move even when I moved my finger.) Within the top right quadrant of the screen, it was extremely difficult to accurately position the cursor. [The four-corner-calibration keypress did not help.] I ended up licking my finger (to make its skin more moist). That cut back on the wild jumps the cursor was making, although there was not always a correlation between the distance my finger moved, and the distance the cursor moved. [Back home, the cursor again behaved correctly.] mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
