Windows scroll without any user scrolling action!!!

[James Takac]

On Saturday 02 February 2008 16:00:04 pew_from_hobart wrote:
> Hello Australian UBUNTU ppl,
>
> Here is a problem which I have not heard of before.
>
> 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.


Hi Pew

Maybe your mouse is playing up. Try cleaning it or maybe replacing it (try a 
spare if you have one) and see if it persists

James