Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 automated random key inputs from somewhere on laptop

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:22:01AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 10:09, New Lad <new.lad at mail.com> wrote:
> > I've been using ubuntu 18.04 ( budgie ) for my laptop for quite some
> > time. Recently, wierd shit started happening,  I would be browsing a
> > website and scroll down and the the webpage would zoom out. Many
> > other such instances happened until I realised that for some reason
> > the Ctrl button input was being given at certain times. Not only
> > that sometimes my mouse right clicks on its own and when I'm
> > browsing something,  it automatically goes down. I checked the
> > laptop keyboard and it is in mint condition.
> 
> I know it seems like an odd coincidence but I would still suspect
> hardware.  If at all possible try replacing the keyboard and mouse and
> see if the problem remains.

It's also possibly worth checking accessibility settings (maybe
"Universal Access"; don't know what Budgie calls them) to see if
anything is enabled there that you aren't expecting to use.  I saw some
very strange effects on my wife's laptop recently that turned out to be
due to this.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]