I am running a variant of Hardy Heron made for the Dell netbook.
I am using the classic GNOME GUI.
I'm getting bizarre behaviors. A dev one sent me code to replace corrupted system files, and this solved my problem. Now the problems are back, and I can't find his email:
1.In a virtual desktop, using oppenoffice.org, the text doc flips back and forth while I am writing. Sometimes I get rapid flipping between desktops.
2.When I try to enter data in any browser field, such as my gmail password, the app flips back and forth, so I have to copy/paste.
3.When I am typing (anywhere) my cursor jumps around the page and inserts my text into other locations.

This is a secondary use machine. I don't plan to reformat and reinstall OS.
But these annoyances definitely tax my patience!

Ideas for code?

I don't know about a code--I'm guessing you mean a script of some sort. But two trouble-shooting ideas come to mind:

1. Create a new user. Log in as the new user and test. If the problems do not exist for the new user, it indicates that something is screwy in the other user's /home directory.

2. Install another window manager, such as Fluxbox or XFCE or LXDE, maybe even KDE so you are using a different set of libraries from Gnome. Test your normal and your test user in the new window manager.

The idea is to determine whether the problem is global, local to a user, local to a window manager/desktop, or local to a particular user with a particular window manager/desktop.

If it's global and if it has spontaneously recurred, wiping and reinstalling may be the only alternative to living with it.