Re: OT: My Keyboard Devil (was Re: z-value)


Reef Fish wrote:
> R. Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > I would be typing a sentence and sometimes the curser would
> > > jump to the middle of a line/word several lines away -- and
> > > I have to make the necessary corrections to what the devil did,
> > > and resume where I left off ... and then the devil would do it
> > > again.
> > >
> > > Has ANYONE ELSE encountered this phenomenon in using Windows XP?


> > I just got a laptop with XP. I don't think I've had that problem
> while
> > typing, but I do find the little touch pad mouse device is
sensitive
> > to even having a finger hovering too close, and sometimes the
cursor
> > will jump to a place I don't want or even open a program
> > unintentionally.
>
> I think you may have identified my Keyboard Devil as Mm Curie
> accidentally discovered X-ray.
>
> > Maybe your thumbs are sending signals via the touch pad.
>
> That must be it! Since I am more or less "all thumbs", and my thumbs
> do hang over parts of the keypad when I type ...


I masked my laptop keyboard with a credit-card sized plastic card
so that no part of it was exposed to my thumbs of any part of my hand.
Sure enough! That seemed to have driven away my Keyboard Devil!

Sorry for bring up the OT topic here. Perhaps others may benefit
from it. The random jumping cursor seemed to be the result of the
combination of LAPTOP and Windows-XP.

-- Bob.

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