Well, I don't think it's a hardware issue. The computer is less than a year old and it's been used sporadically over the last year. Any thoughts on how to rule hardware out as an issue?
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 6:18 AM <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, September 04, 2020 07:55:43 PM Aaron Elmquist wrote: > > I'm on debian buster using KDE as my GUI. My trackpoint was working quite > > well until a month or two ago (maybe more). Now it has some odd behavior > > where it will snap to the bottom of the screen every so often when I'm > > using it. > > > > Seems like the input is very sensitive to the bottom direction. No > > snapping to any other location Really seems like the input in the down > > direction became overly sensitive. I can't really control the rate of a > > downward cursor movement consistently. It's just to fast from time to > > time. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. I would provide more details, configs, > > etc., but I'm not really sure what's relevant. > > I suspect you suspect the same thing I do, that it is a hardware problem. > > I don't have any idea how hard it may be to get or to replace a trackpoint > -- > you may have to replace the entire keyboard as a unit, which may not be > all > that hard. > > If it were mine, I would look for an external tracking device (mouse, > trackball, ???) and start using it instead of the trackpoint. For > traveling, > there are some very small mice available. > >
