<div dir="ltr"><div>I have a Dell Latitude E5570, and I know well the frustrations of the Dell touchpad. I had an HP once running Windows 8 (I think?), and I found the feature where the touchpad could be disabled while one is typing to be very useful. So far, I have not been able to find or enable the same functionality in Dell that can be used in Ubuntu.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, it seems that I may have provided a clue as to Robert's (and indeed my) problem. Perhaps something will come of this... perhaps someone from Dell is listening.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Owen.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 December 2017 at 00:31, Peter Flynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@silmaril.ie" target="_blank">peter@silmaril.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 26/12/17 08:52, robert wrote:<br>
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On 25.12.2017 12:36, Owen Thomas wrote:<br>
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This has happened to be before too.<br>
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I think Robert is describing a situation where he clicks the mouse somewhere, and then, after releasing the mouse button, he moves the mouse cursor, by moving his mouse, elsewhere. He frustratingly observes all text in the application where he clicked to the place in nearest proximity to where the moved the cursor to has been highlighted.<br>
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exactly<br>
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I have had this problem too, and I believe it is because I have accidentally enabled some assisted typing facility. I don't know how to stop it, but thankfully it hasn't happened to me in a while.<br>
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I don't know how to fix it, but it could be a hardware thing? What type of hardware have you got Robert?<br>
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dell xps15<br>
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I have the identical problem...on my XPS 15, and AFAICS its the touchpad hardware settings.<br>
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(I'm also curious to know — in another thread, I suggest — how you got Ubuntu installed at all, as none of the flavours will boot from the USB for me — they all hang on the fourth coloured dot while the Ubuntu logo is on-screen during bootup, apparently because the video driver is mismatched. I found that Mint doesn't do this, and it detects *and* installs *and* fixes the NVidia driver problems *and* correctly updates grub, which no other distro would do on this laptop).<br>
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The XPS 15 touchpad is GROSSLY oversensitive, and I did at some stage during OS/boot experimentation discover a command which reveals and allows setting dozens of touchpad parameters. But I don't have that link with me right now. Now that I have a fairly stable installation, I need to revisit this and find settings that work — but it will be a long process, as I don't actually understand what a lot of the settings were called.<br>
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But it is a known problem, and I believe people have solved it.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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///Peter</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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