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nlw

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Registered: 2012-01-18

Posts: 8

Mouse moves around randomly over the root window (with touchscreen)

I have a new machine, and I just installed Arch in it. I am using Awesome v3.5.6 and I have a (wireless) mouse, and everything appears to work fine. Except when I am on the root widow, the pointer starts moving around crazily. it jumps around every other instant like Nightcrawler on drugs.

I also have a touchscreen, and a mousepad. I heard about touchscreen related problems, so I tried deactivating the touchscreen with xinput. This made the jumping at the root window stop, but then the mouse started to work funny in general, in any window, like it is not fully responsible.

Any ideas how to fix or even debug this?

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,372

Re: Mouse moves around randomly over the root window (with touchscreen)

Probably wrong, but I had a similar problem occur whilst troubleshooting something completely different earlier in the week.

Do you have a graphics tablet, and have you left the pen/stylus resting on the tablet? If so, move the pen off it.

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