Re: [Oberon] Erratic Mouse Behaviour in A2
From: Treutwein Bernhard <Bernhard.Treutwein@Verwaltung.Uni-Muenchen.DE> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:54:59 +0000
In my Linux32/a2 "installation" my mouse behaves erratically, cursor jumps. Connecting the same mouse to Windows 10 and using Win64/a2 work without problems.
Bernhard, (1) Does the pointer move when the mouse is not touched? I'd expect that to be a software bug or hardware defect. A few problems appeared to creep in with the renaming of numeric types. http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/1 (2) Alternatively, is there a delay between moving the mouse and moving the pointer? The phenomenon occurs here at times. A limitation of the implementation; the machine is temporarily too busy to update the pointer? Regards, ... P.L. -- 48.7693 N, 123.3053 W tel: +1 604 670 0140
Hi Peter,
(1) Does the pointer move when the mouse is not touched? (2) Alternatively, is there a delay between moving the mouse
no, it was neither of the two behaviors, there were surprising effects like moving and zooming windows on mouse clicks and rearranging the desktop. But strangly I currently cannot reproduce the problem at all. The mouse works in moment as expected. I am sorry for the noise. -- Bernhard
peter@easthope.ca hat am 21.07.2021 15:32 geschrieben:
From: Treutwein Bernhard <Bernhard.Treutwein@Verwaltung.Uni-Muenchen.DE> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:54:59 +0000
In my Linux32/a2 "installation" my mouse behaves erratically, cursor jumps. Connecting the same mouse to Windows 10 and using Win64/a2 work without problems.
Bernhard, (1) Does the pointer move when the mouse is not touched? I'd expect that to be a software bug or hardware defect. A few problems appeared to creep in with the renaming of numeric types. http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/1
(2) Alternatively, is there a delay between moving the mouse and moving the pointer? The phenomenon occurs here at times. A limitation of the implementation; the machine is temporarily too busy to update the pointer?
Regards, ... P.L.
-- 48.7693 N, 123.3053 W tel: +1 604 670 0140
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 17:08, Bernhard Treutwein <oberon@wildwein.de> wrote:
no, it was neither of the two behaviors, there were surprising effects like moving and zooming windows on mouse clicks and rearranging the desktop. But strangly I currently cannot reproduce the problem at all.
The mouse works in moment as expected. I am sorry for the noise.
Was/is it a wireless mouse, by any chance? If so, try a wired one. There are often instances of interference in wireless devices from other such devices nearby, or even other devices that emit RF noise, and they are also prone to erratic behavior when the batteries get low on charge. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
The mouse works in moment as expected. I am sorry for the noise.
Was/is it a wireless mouse, by any chance?
yes, it is a wireless and the erratic behavior appears to be more often near the access point, so you might be correct. What puzzles me is the fact that it apparently only occurs in A2 and not in norml desktop use of TDE (the low resources fork of KDE 3).
On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 11:10, Bernhard Treutwein <oberon@wildwein.de> wrote:
yes, it is a wireless and the erratic behavior appears to be more often near the access point, so you might be correct.
Aha...
What puzzles me is the fact that it apparently only occurs in A2 and not in norml desktop use of TDE (the low resources fork of KDE 3).
Oh, Trinity, right. Well, perhaps Linux is more tolerant of small timing errors, bad transmissions or similar minor glitches, but Oberon is not? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
Bernhard Treutwein <oberon@wildwein.de> hat am 22.07.2021 11:10 geschrieben:
The mouse works in moment as expected. I am sorry for the noise.
Was/is it a wireless mouse, by any chance?
yes, it is a wireless and the erratic behavior appears to be more often near the access point, so you might be correct. What puzzles me is the fact that it apparently only occurs in A2 and not in normal desktop use of TDE (the low resources fork of KDE 3). --
sorrily I needed quite some time to grab a wired mouse after having had almost no problems for some time, the erratic behavior reoccured and it is not bound to the wireless mouse. Any more ideas?
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