[SOLVED] Mouse jumps

amaro · 10-11-2014, 08:48 AM

Hello, guys!

Bought a new laptop HP 470 and have this annoying mouse jumps with the touchpad. For instance, I go to CUT in the context menu and till I tap it jumps to COPY, or I go to GO TO PARENT FOLDER and it jumps to EDIT or VIEW. A few times I was trying to open a folder and it drags and drops it in the above folder. Simply annoying. Googled a bit and created one file called synaptics.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with the following

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver          "synaptics"
    Option          "FingerLow"                     "2"
    Option          "FingerHigh"                    "3"
EndSection

but still get those jumps from time to time. Is there anything else I could do?

Thank you in advance!

jmccue · 10-11-2014, 11:26 AM

You can try

Code:

xset m 3 1

inside a xterm with different numeric values, that is my setting for a laptop. If you find a value that seems to work add it to your ~/.xinitrc. See "man xset"

John

BCarey · 10-13-2014, 12:13 PM

Try setting Finger low and high to much higher like 35 and 40.

Brian

BCarey · 10-13-2014, 01:26 PM

I just checked my laptop and I have them at 25 and 30. Your settings would make the pad extremely sensitive.

You can see your settings with the command "synclient -l". You may need to play with the click-related settings.

Brian

amaro · 10-14-2014, 02:43 AM

@John

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmccue

You can try

Code:

xset m 3 1

inside a xterm with different numeric values, that is my setting for a laptop. If you find a value that seems to work add it to your ~/.xinitrc.

I think I see some results with

Code:

xset m 1 1

but still not perfect. And in order for this to work I had to put it in ~/.bashrc.

@Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

You can see your settings with the command "synclient -l".

Just checked "synclient -l" and it shows 25 and 30. Seems like neither the file synaptics.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d that I created, nor the suggestion from John does anything although I get the feeling that they have some effect. Where exactly are Finger low and high settings located?

BCarey · 10-14-2014, 09:26 AM

With slackware the "proper" way is to copy /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and then edit it. The main difference I see between that file and the one you created is that the slackware file uses "InputClass" and your file uses "InputDevice".

Brian

amaro · 10-18-2014, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

With slackware the "proper" way is to copy /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and then edit it.

Doesn't work for me. This is by far the most effective:

Code:

xset m 1 1

Darth Vader · 10-18-2014, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amaro

Hello, guys!

Bought a new laptop HP 470 and have this annoying mouse jumps with the touchpad. For instance, I go to CUT in the context menu and till I tap it jumps to COPY, or I go to GO TO PARENT FOLDER and it jumps to EDIT or VIEW. A few times I was trying to open a folder and it drags and drops it in the above folder. Simply annoying. Googled a bit and created one file called synaptics.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with the following

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver          "synaptics"
    Option          "FingerLow"                     "2"
    Option          "FingerHigh"                    "3"
EndSection

but still get those jumps from time to time. Is there anything else I could do?

Thank you in advance!

You can pray to the TOP10 best followed gods, but your mouse is just... crap. Buy another one. Something around $5 and you'll be happy.

BTW, I have a respectable crazy mouses collection, containing around 20 units... I keep them for wires, when I need them...