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Re: "Cursor Creep"



I believe the manual says that if the cursor starts to creep, just don't
touch it for a little while and it will stop.  At least that has been my
personal experience.

-Mike


On 27-Feb-97 George Amrhein wrote:
>The following is a duplicate of a message that I originally sent to the
>wrong address. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
>
>
>When the cursor starts creeping while using the Trackpoint, temporarily 
>putting the ThinkPad into "Suspend mode", by either closing the lid, or by
>pressing Fn + F4  from the keyboard, will cause the cursor to be stable 
>again when the computer resumes from Suspend mode (after the lid is
>re-opened or by pressing Fn on the keyboard). The computer checks the 
>position of the Trackpoint during the resume from Suspend & recalibrates
>the center to that location. (My computer is a 701cs. I do not know if other
>ThinkPad model Trackpoints behave identically to the one on this machine.)
>
>If the cursor starts creeping during a session using the modem, etc., I 
>usually tolerate it -- & keep a steady pressure on the Trackpoint to control 
>the cursor -- until after logging off, because Suspend mode shuts down the
>modem.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>GMA
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