I've been using this netbook for a few months now and I use it a lot of the time for typing documentation. The main problem I had was that the cursor would jump all over the screen while typing and I sometimes couldn't control where it would go and what it would do.

Now, with this simple line from the Xfce documentation, my mobile computer use has been revolutionised. The cursor stays where it should be all the time and I can type comfortably without worrying that the cursor might jump to somewhere else on the page, delete a line or a paragraph or end up closing a window while I type.

This runs in the background when entered into the terminal until disabled by ctrl-c. But is there a way to make it permanent so it's always enabled even on restart?

Depending on distro/level you can add scripts to start up. Usually one of the .rc

It could be possible too that the user environment could have that script added on logon.

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This is for Slackware. So do I just create an executable .sh file with the line included:

and put it in /etc/rc.d/rc4.d?

Reference:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...cripts-644585/

EDIT: it may just be a case of putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

i think it would be wiser to put this in the user session startup.
what DE/wm are you using?

I haven't done this yet, don't want to mess it up even though it's probably a very simple thing.

I'm using LXDE. Should I add it somewhere in .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart or desktop.conf?

i think LXDE has a GUI thingymajick to add autostart (or startup) commands/applications.

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Couldn't find a GUI thingymajick but this was helpful:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/3911...n-lxde-starts?

You just add the command to the end of the file in /home/<user>/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Thank you very much for your help.