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Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470

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On Friday, September 04, 2020 07:55:43 PM Aaron Elmquist wrote:
> I'm on debian buster using KDE as my GUI. My trackpoint was working quite
> well until a month or two ago (maybe more).  Now it has some odd behavior
> where it will snap to the bottom of the screen every so often when I'm
> using it.
> 
> Seems like the input is very sensitive to the bottom direction.  No
> snapping to any other location  Really seems like the input in the down
> direction became overly sensitive.  I can't really control the rate of a
> downward cursor movement consistently.   It's just to fast from time to
> time.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  I would provide more details, configs,
> etc., but I'm not really sure what's relevant.

I suspect you suspect the same thing I do, that it is a hardware problem.

I don't have any idea how hard it may be to get or to replace a trackpoint -- 
you may have to replace the entire keyboard as a unit, which may not be all 
that hard.

If it were mine, I would look for an external tracking device (mouse, 
trackball, ???) and start using it instead of the trackpoint.  For traveling, 
there are some very small mice available.

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Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-05 02:10 +0200
  Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-05 13:20 +0200
    Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-05 18:40 +0200
      Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-05 19:50 +0200
        Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-09-06 00:20 +0200
          Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-09-06 17:00 +0200
            Re: Trackpoint not work properly on Thinkpad T470 Aaron Elmquist <elmq0022@umn.edu> - 2020-09-06 17:40 +0200

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