On Saturday 02 February 2008 17:00:04 pew_from_hobart wrote: > Whenever I have a window on the screen for example: emails in gmail which > scroll down the screen (eg there are more lines of info than will fit on > the screen) or even Nautilus screens which also have more info that can fit > on the screen... I can be reading the screen and for no apparent reason the > screen will scroll down to the bottom of the window. > > It is like there was a mouse movement detected to scroll the window > contents downwards... even though I have not touched the mouse e.g. the > scrolling movement of the windows happens by itself. > > As I hope you can appreciate, it is very annoying for me to be reading the > screen contents then suddenly have it scroll to the bottom of the window > WITHOUT me touching the mouse or cursor keys. > > I will really appreciate it if someone can work out how to stop this > unwanted behaviour. Note: it is intermittent.
I had this issue with a Belkin Wireless "3D Laser Mouse". It happened all the time, and was particularly annoying in games (particualrly FPS). I ended up replacing it with a different brand/model and the issues went away. I'm guessing it has something to do with the mouse powering down into a low power mode after a few seconds on non-use, and this is sending something to the PC that gets interpreted as scroll down. PS: I still have the mouse. If this turns out to be some sort of common behaviour, I am quite willing to pass the mouse onto someone else who can fix it and/or run dev tools to help figure it out. FWIW, I never lodged a bug because I thought it was just faulty hardware. -- Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
