Hi :) lqtm :) It's been quite a good thread imo, with useful ideas which may lead to better work-flow and/or save a bit of money by helping be able to fix stuff. So it's not been a waste of time and didn't "bother the list"
I use a track-ball at work. At first it was really difficult to get the finesse i am used to from using a mouse but that only took a couple of weeks to get close enough and now i think it's even better. One advantage is that you can do really fine-grained stuff and then scoot really fast across vast distances by letting the ball roll with minimal effort. With a mouse you have to physically pick up the mouse several times to cover the same sort of distance. To start with i need lots of course-corrections at the end but now i tend to hit the target much more often. Of course i took the ball out and found tons of fluff in there but tipping it upside-down let most of it fall out (quite handy because i only got the ball out in the first place by turning it upside (try not to do that above your face or cuppa tea or keyboard!)). One of those cotton-buds that you shouldn't clean your ears with is good for doing cleaning the 3 little contacts inside. Everything people have been saying about drivers and updates is still relevant too of course :) The main thing is that it's good to hear you have solved the problem!! :)) Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 24 March 2014 01:27, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning > Maybe(?) I solved the mystery. > I use a trackball instead of a mouse: > ball in the middle, buttons left and right. > Apparently thoses buttons do not only respond to clicking = pressing, but > also "pulling". > If you drag your finger across the button, if works somehow like pulling a > mouse. > > I never noticed this little "trick" (at least not consciously) before. > Maybe, if I keep my finger a little more quiet, I can also shut up and stop > bothering the list. > > Sorry for the commotion! > Thomas > > > > > > (2014/03/24 6:53), Dan Hall wrote: >> >> I think I made a faux pas. Sorry everyone! >> -Dan Hall >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dan Hall [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:16 AM >> To: 'Kracked_P_P---webmaster'; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] stop automatic scrolling >> >> If you press straight down on the mouse wheel and listen carefully you >> should hear a click and then the icon (a double arrow pointing up and down >> with a dot between them) appears. I believe it's a mouse 'feature' so you >> can scroll up and down the page without holding down the left mouse >> button. >> I often activate that feature accidently when using the mouse wheel. >> I'm using Windows 7. >> -Dan Hall >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:15 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] stop automatic scrolling >> >> >> I have had that same "uncontrolled" mouse scrolling before. Yes it >> seemed to be the mouse driver[s]. >> >> Never seen that "light blue" icon before, but I rarely use Windows and >> then it is mostly USB mice using default Windows internal drivers, not >> drivers from any media or downloads. >> >> I would not want to keep scrolling when I stop moving my mouse. I could >> not stand it when it happened that one time. >> >> The only scrolling option in LO seems to be "smooth scrolling", which >> seems to be checked as default with my DEB 64 bit install of 4.2.2.1. >> >> >> >> On 03/22/2014 11:30 PM, Tim Deaton wrote: >>> >>> I suspect that this is a feature of the mouse driver, and that it >>> works in a variety of programs. >>> >>> I have noticed that when scrolling up or down thru a document using >>> the scroll-wheel of the mouse. Something I do turns on an 'automated' >>> scroll. I'll notice a new symbol on the screen (light blue and >>> transparent, if I remember correctly). If I move the mouse pointer to >>> be horizontal with that symbol, the scrolling will stop. If I move >>> the pointer above the symbol, the document will scroll toward the >>> top. If I move the pointer below it, then the document will scroll >>> toward the bottom. >>> >>> If I remember correctly, hitting [esc] will kill this 'automated' scroll. >>> >>> -- Tim Deaton >>> =========================== >>> >>> >>> On 3/21/2014 5:10 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> I am not sure this is a LibreOffice problem. I have seen it in other >>>> applications, such as Firefox as well. I think it is an unstable >>>> mouse or mouse driver effect. I noticed it usually occurs when I am >>>> hovering the mouse cursor in the vertical scroll bar. I found that >>>> clicking somewhere in the vertical scroll bar usually stops it. I >>>> haven't seen it lately, but then maybe I stopped hovering the mouse >>>> cursor in the vertical scroll bar. >>>> Girvin Herr >>>> >>>> >>>> On 03/21/2014 03:24 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi :) >>>>> Have you tried renaming your User Profile yet? >>>>> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile >>>>> >>>>> That often fixes weird things that shouldn't happen = particularly if >>>>> they haven't always happened and just started mysteriously one day for >>>>> no apparent reason (perhaps after adding a new Extension) >>>>> Regards from >>>>> Tom :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 21 March 2014 09:59, Thomas Blasejewicz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Good evening >>>>>> Probably this is a stupid question, but ... >>>>>> I noticed time and again, that LO starts scrolling and cannot be >>>>>> stopped, until the end of the file is reached, >>>>>> when I click below the blue rectacle on the right side scroll bar in >>>>>> order to get just a little further down. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have been looking, and searching the help documentation for >>>>>> "automatic >>>>>> scrolling" (or similar expressions), but >>>>>> could not find yet the trick to make LO stop this. (it is really >>>>>> annoying, when you are taken to place you don't want to go to) >>>>>> >>>>>> How do you stop, or customize, this behavior. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>> Thomas >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >>>>>> Problems? >>>>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>>>> Posting guidelines + more: >>>>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot >>>>>> be deleted >>>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
