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Touch pad / Touchpad - cursor erratic when typing

Postby tittiger » Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:36 pm

I am posting here mainly to document my solution so that others may find something when searching on "touch pad" or "touchpad" as I could find nothing.

The issue that was driving me nuts was that when I typed the cursor would end up all over the place. It was maddening to say the least and made it almost impossible to type at any speed.

Long story short - I just found a configuration setting under System -> Preferences -> Mouse The last tab of this window is "touch pad" and there is a selection called: "Disable touch pad when typing"

After you select if make sure it takes as it did not the first time that I tried.

It works much better than before. My only suggestion is to be able to adjust the period of time from when the app thinks you stopped typing and restores touch pad function. i.e. If I type too slowly the touch pad becomes active and the chaos start anew.
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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby tittiger » Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:53 pm

Feedback:

After a few hours this is still a big problem. It's better but not close to being tolerable....

I can only hope that it is addressed in V2.8

A saving grace that I have discovered is multiple levels of ctrl-Z. (unlike Windoze)
I works and took a few hours to discover. I had also forgotten about ctrl-Y
but Google reminded me about it.

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2 parts: update manager and Ubuntu tweak

Postby tittiger » Wed Oct 13, 2010 2:35 pm

I have more questions than answers at this point - so here goes:

I used Ubuntu Tweak to point my usr/home directories to the directories on my NTFS data partition. (see attachment) It plain does not work; I am not redirected to the correct partition.
I went to http://ubuntu-tweak.com and registered only to find that they offer no
documentation or help forum it seems. Maybe they are just harvesting email address's?

Anyhow I saw that there was a newer version of Ubuntu Tweak and when I tried to DL it GDebi package installer was the default so I stopped not knowing if I should update and/or if I should use the synaptic package manager somehow instead.

My other question is that update manager popped up offering 422 "Important security updates" of 600 meg in total!
I looked and none of them seem to apply to Ubuntu Tweak (though I see no search function in update manager)

My short question here is that my Ubuntu partition is only 15 gigs. Should I go ahead and let package manager do it's thing on all 422 files?

These seem to be the most pressing issues. I am eager to learn the basics but not sure where to go. Because of the nature of the beast the docs if they exist seem to be spread all over the place.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby JOHNNYG » Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:02 pm

Here is the newest "Lucid" and "Maverick" Ubuntu tweak go ahead and install your poison. I have had no issues with ether, as far as your updates go, as long as you don't Upgrade lucid to maverick in Ultimate Edition you should be OK, but if you want a definite answer, if you could post a screen shot or shots of your update managers read out, then we could see what ya got going on!
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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby tittiger » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:40 pm

JOHNNYG wrote:Here is the newest "Lucid" and "Maverick" Ubuntu tweak go ahead and install your poison. I have had no issues with ether, as far as your updates go, as long as you don't Upgrade lucid to maverick in Ultimate Edition you should be OK, but if you want a definite answer, if you could post a screen shot or shots of your update managers read out, then we could see what ya got going on!


Kewl...
I have to discover where drafts of replies are stored. That function does not work in many forums but I have an inkling that they work here.

With Maverick I got this message from the package mangager:
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2)

So I installed Lucid and got this message when I opened Tweak:
It is highly recommend to enable the stable source of Ubuntu Tweak to get security and normal update.
If you don't enable the source, you will need to update manually.
Would you like to enable the stable source?


I flipped a coin and choose yes. I then checked the version and yes it was updated! Ahhhh small victories!

It stomped my paths so I re-entered them. I has a better syntax than the previous version.
GRRR small defeat. It still did not work. Though I have not rebooted. In part because I can't find where drafts are saved here.

As far as the updater I have no idea on how to capture a scrolling window that is much longer than can be seen. Some window utilities do that but neither of the included capture utils do that as far as I can see, nor do I see how to output a list of the suggested updates.

I have to run. I will reboot and get back with you.

BTW I also notice that the package manager in tweak now works and something called Source Center has a 64 bit update for Adobe Flash. What to do with that if anything?



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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby Nwallhausen » Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:03 pm

My issue is that I have my ati driver working and I have gnome and daemon screensavers off but every 10 minutes idle my screen goes black and won't respond. Also is there a way to update from 2.7 to 2.8 without data loss?
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64/32 Bit editions

Postby newmusic » Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:57 am

My computer can install the 64bit edition. Can I run 32 bit software on it?

I'm assuming you need 32 bit software to run on a 32 bit OS. If I load the 64 Bit (which I understand is the better option) can I load any software into into it.

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Re: 64/32 Bit editions

Postby TexasMike » Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:11 am

newmusic wrote:My computer can install the 64bit edition. Can I run 32 bit software on it?

I'm assuming you need 32 bit software to run on a 32 bit OS. If I load the 64 Bit (which I understand is the better option) can I load any software into into it.

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Most 32 bit software will work in the 64 bit OS, you just cannot run 64 bit software in a 32 bit OS. I run 64 bit on all my 64 bit machines, and on my older hardware - Pentium 4 for instance - I run 32 bit. Jump right in to the 64 bit and you will be pleased with the performance.
Are you going to install Ultimate Edition 2.7 x64 or 2.8x64? Both are excellent versions.
Le us know if you need any assistance or if you just have some questions - we are here to help. ;)
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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby newmusic » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:59 pm

Thx TexasMike.
Will wait a bit to see when the 2.9 comes out which shouldn't be too long and then I'll change to the 64bit version. I am currently using the 32bit version of 2.7.
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Re: Software issues in Ultimate 2.7 post here.

Postby newmusic » Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:56 am

When I am in windows, downloading a big file, I am able to download sometimes at the maximum bandwidth of 400kB/s (South Africa)
In Ultimate Edition downloading the same large file, I can only reach speeds of 50kB/s. The system will allow me to download approx 7 files but all will run at the approx same speed of 50kB/s.
I have made no tweaks to the system or to Firefox.

I have the same scenario using download managers - In windows I use Free Download Manager and in Ultimate Edition I use FatRat.

Please advise how to maximise download speeds as its schleppy booting in and out of windows just to download faster.

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