Laptop keyboard issue

[Derek Broughton]

keithclark1966 at rogers.com wrote:

> I don't think so Martin.  I thought about this at first but even when I'm
> very careful it seems to happen.
> 
Please don't top-post.  It makes it very hard to have a conversation.
 
> On Dec 29, 2007 8:12 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> I seem to be having a problem with my Compaq R400 laptop keyboard in
> Ubuntu.  I will be typing away, like creating this message, and all of a
> sudden I am typing in another unrelated text box somewhere.  It happens
> often, but in XP I've never seen the issue before so it should not be a
> hardware problem.

Does the laptop have a touchpad?  My new HP is impossible to type on without
my thumbs dangling near the touch pad (obviously designed for hunt-and-peck
typists), which often causes refocusing of the mouth.  The only certain
solution I know is to disable the touchpad completely, but it should be
possible to desensitize it.
-- 
derek