Nervous Mouse Syndrome

[Joseph]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
> 
>> Bart, I appreciate your advice, but with my model of optic track ball, the SMOOOOOOTH and SHINY 
>> aren't applicable.  The optic part is behind the ball which is operated by the thumb....   See the 
>> link in one of my previous eMails.
>>
>> I DID see an improvement when I took it off the hard wooden desk top and put it on a folded shirt. 
>> I wonder if a vibration of some kind coming through the desk may have caused that...
>>
>> And I thoroughly clean the ball and socket daily, so even that shouldn't have been a real issue.
>>
>> Anyway, except for the two page buttons not working, it seems to be working fine.
> 
> Well...um...I thought maybe you inverted the track ball...and, you know, 
> sort of moved it around that way...you know what I mean?
> 
> There was a recent case of someone in one of our buildings that cleaned 
> a trackball with some material that took off the covering of the ball. 
> I think they used one of those bleach wipes that kill bacteria.  The 
> optical sensors couldn't get a good reading off the ball anymore.
> 
> I don't know if it worked but my boss told her to try putting auto wax 
> on the ball to get it to work again.
> 
> -Bart
> 


I've only used a good optical lens cleaner for it.  I've been doing that a lot and no problems over 
the years on the other machine with the XP....   just a problem on Ubuntu.  However, I will get a 
mat for it (get shed of the shirt), and hope it stays as good as it is now....   just an occasional 
jiggle.

Joseph