Go to your system preferences (should be in the dock) and open it. Click on "mouse" in the hardware section and click "ignore mouse while typing". That should help. It takes a little adjustment to get used to the ibook.
Brian O'Neal On 1/5/03 12:52 PM, "Ward Oldham" <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > Is this the same email you just sent me? > > (the insertion point will never change unless you "click" the trackpad) > > > On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> If, while typing on my iBook I place/rest more than one finger on the >> track >> pad the cursor goes haywire. I have to stop typing and remove the >> offending >> appendages to get it to settle down. >> >> (Clarification: it is the ibar image of the cursor that moves around >> erratically, the insertion point does not change). >> >> Adjusting the tracking speed and/or doubleclick speed in the mouse >> preferences does not seem to affect the problem other than to speed up >> or >> slow down the haywire cursor. >> >> I don't recall this ever happening on my wallstreet. Have any of you >> iBook >> or TiBook owners encountered this problem? >> >> >> Harry, >> >> >> Harry Jacobson-Beyer >> Surveyor of the Passing Scene! >> >> http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ >> What a strange, long, trip it is! >> >> remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how >> fast >> you go coming down! >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
