[Gllug] Mouse pointer drifts to the right

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh john at sinodun.org.uk on Monday 08 March 2004 2:47 pm:
> I've got an odd problem on one of my Sarge boxes (and only one).  In
> normal use something happens to cause the mouse pointer (the little arrow)
> to appear about 1 cm to the right of where it should be.  It will only get
> within 1cm of the left of the screen; you have to click 1cm to the right
> of anything you want to click on, and it goes off the right hand edge of
> the screen.  I haven't been able to discover what triggers the problem,
> but once it's happened I have to re-boot the box to fix it.  Just
> restarting X is *not* enough.
> Any suggestions?

I'm sure this is not your answer, but I experienced this with a laptop; turned 
out to be dried marmalade on the mousepad -- cleaning it off stopped the 
problem. 
- -- 
Alistair

OT -- and directed at everyone -- we're after someone who prints flyers. 
Nothing major, two colours and black on light card, size A6, 2000 or so this 
time round. Work for a printer or prepared to recommend one? I'd appreciate 
knowing, Tx.
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