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Sons of Liberty
Asked: 2017-03-02 19:02:30 +0800 CST

Erratic Cursor: Laptop Touchpad Driver? [duplicate]

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I'm experiencing a horribly erratic, bouncy/shaky cursor in Ubuntu, but not in Windows. It's a Dell Latitude E6230 laptop. I was going to replace the touchpad until I discovered I wasn't having the problem in Windows. Might this be a driver issue? Is there a touchpad/mouse driver for Ubuntu that might remedy this problem? I have the same problem while using other Linux distros too on this laptop.

Thanks.

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1 Answers

  1. Most of the time it happens if your screen has a touch option and it’s broken. Use

    xinput

    to find out the input device ID of your touch screen or touch pad and

    xinput disable [ID]

    to disable it.

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