On 2023-01-26 19:50, Stakanov wrote:
In data giovedì 26 gennaio 2023 18:36:25 CET, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
On 2023-01-26 18:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-01-26 17:55, joe a wrote:
On 1/26/2023 11:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
At this secondary location I have a rebellious mouse.
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Cardboard is working well. I just need one with the proper size and shape.
In my experience, less is the mouse accurate and the laser old, less it handles uneven surfaces. Also the degree of reflective capacity make the difference. My hint would be: - even (that means flat) surface without scratches or waves and so on. - non reflective surface, tissues surfaces work very well (like the ones of rubber with gelly and tissue on it to avoid the carpal tunnel).
Cardboard (from an Ikea box) is working quite well.
- consider to use a cabled trackball, it may be more convenient if you require precision of movement.
I use a trackball at home, works very well. A decade (or more) old unit. For this location, where other people use it, a cheap mouse seemed the thing to have.
- a source of "stop and go" is disk activity (swapping) and some program doing it that has been programmed badly not allowing multitasking that is, it "holds" the action so others cannot do anything until that program finishes the request. (Normally I did see this only with windows, I had the case while doing these days contemporaneously a re-sync (scrub) of a RAID 1 and simultaneously on another disk a smart test extended version. There the "pointer" froze quite some times. Which is logic as the smart does not allow the disk other actions when doing the writing tests. So software question: did you have some scheduled low level activity running when this happens like "smart" or "scrub of a Raid"?
Nope, nothing of the sort. The machine is "old", so not very powerful for today, but the load was very light. I have an applet continuously drawing a tiny graph at the bottom; and this applet also displays "I/O wait" percent (Multiload-ng on XFCE).
- I strongly advise against taking a cat. Take a dog instead. A cat once it has eaten says "f....off". A dog once it has eaten just tries to f.... your leg. Which is much more social. (Does not move your mouse pointer though).
:-DD I like both cats and dogs, but I prefer dogs :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.4)