On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:34 AM Barry Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been having an issue lately that is inconsistent, but is worse now, > and it's driving me crazy. > > I'm running Fedora 30 on a Dell xps 15 9570 with the thunderbolt "dock," so > a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile there, and an Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile) > built-in. I think this only happens when I'm using the nvidia card, and > external monitors plugged in, but I'm not positive about that. I'm using > the nvidia proprietary drivers from rpmfusion. > > What happens is, the mouse pointer just randomly jumps. I can have both > hands on the keyboard, and the mouse pointer will randomly jump to the > other monitor. Or it will jump up, down left, or right inside the current > window, or to another. It happens all the time, whether my hands are on > the keyboard or not. I've replaced my rodent with a new Logitech M500, and > that didn't help. Googling hasn't yielded any similar problems. This > doesn't appear (to me) to be an acceleration issue. > > Anybody seen anything like this before? > > Thanks, > Barry > I once had a "ghost keyboard" issue; completely randomly I'd experience key-presses, sometimes like a key got stuck (but I didn't even press that key). It turned-out that the bluetooth keyboard in my backpack was getting bumped in just the wrong way to turn on the power itself, and then type away! Do you have a wireless mouse in your backpack that could be doing this? -Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
