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Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu

From David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu
Date 2011-04-14 11:07 +0000
Organization Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
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On 13/04/2011 10:53, ChrisL wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Ever since I've upgraded to Mathematica 8, the interface presents a
> very strange behaviour; it becomes either unresponsive or
> misinterprets the keyboard, and is generally a bit sluggish.
> A typical example is that if I start typing a bit fast, the cursor
> jumps to a new line (*). Another example is I press the down key but
> the cursor goes up, repeatedly.
>
> I don't have these issues with the workbench, so it's restricted to
> the interface.
>
> Is there any I can do? Would upgrading to 8.0.1 fix things?
> This is becoming really impossible to work from the interface.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> * not an issue with the laptop's trackpad, I'm fairly sure. I haven't
> started to type differently since Mathematica 8.0.0. And clicking from
> the trackpad is disabled anyway.
>
I also noticed that 8.0.0 would become very sluggish at random times - 
so sluggish that the keys backed up, and I could stop and watch them 
appearing! I found it so bad that I dropped back to version 7.

Fortunately, the problem has gone with 8.0.1.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

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irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu 64b) ChrisL <chris.ladroue@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 09:53 +0000
  Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-04-14 11:07 +0000
    Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu ChrisL <chris.ladroue@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 11:38 +0000
      Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 11:53 +0000
        Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-04-17 23:16 +0000
    Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch@gmail.com>ZZ - 2011-04-19 10:58 +0000

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