On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:07:16 +0100 Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 02:13 23/09/2015 -0500, Julio Saleme wrote: > >I was using the Fresh 5.0.1 version and encounter two bugs in Writer > > > >1) at random times when I'm typing the text move to two or three > >lines above. 2) random black selection shadow appears as I'm > >writing, when correcting a text and start erasing everything instead > >of editing (As shown in the picture) > > Attached files are removed by the mailing list processor before > messages are distributed. So no-one will have seen your picture. > > >So I downgraded to the stable version of Still 4.4.5 but the same > >two bugs happen. How to fix it? > > It's possible that this is not a software bug and has nothing to do > with LibreOffice. Are you perhaps using a system - probably a > notebook - with a touch-sensitive trackpad? if so, it is quite > possible that you are touching the trackpad with part of your hand - > perhaps your thumb - or dragging it over the trackpad whilst you are > typing. These actions will respectively move the cursor position or > select a region of text, producing exactly the effects you describe. > The fact that it occurs with different software versions provides > extra evidence for this diagnosis. You notice it in LibreOffice > because that is the application you mostly use. > > You will probably find it difficult to believe that you are doing > this, but I can assure you that I have watched people doing exactly > this! Since you are concentrating on typing, you will not be aware of > exactly what your thumb is doing. Get someone to watch you typing in > order to be convinced. If this is your problem, you will find that > you can adjust the sensitivity of the trackpad; this setting will be > in your operating system (in Control Panel? under Mouse?), not in > LibreOffice. If you reduce the sensitivity sufficiently, you should > find this problem goes away. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > I was about to say the same thing . As i suffer from the self same problem it is the track pad on this laptop that causes my problem, I now use a piece of cardboard to cover the track pad most of the time . Problem fixed .. Pete . -- Linux voyager 3.6.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 12 23:58:58 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- 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
