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[Claudio Pighin <646860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning my touch-pad seemed to work fine, but now it's giving problems. However, a couple of hours ago I encountered difficulties with jumping cursor while writing an e-mail. Such a problem occurs very often (perhaps always) in Ubuntu environment. Until now I have not reported this strange behaviour since I was considering it as a minor problem compared to the opening of unwanted windows and applications, but now I suspect that they are different aspects of the same bug. So I recorded the attached movie to show what happens when I try to write an e-mail (or a text in a web page). In the example attached I was writing the word: "impegno" and the cursor jumped at a line below when I was just hinting the key: "o". Such a behaviour occurs several times during the editing of my e-mail and it was very frustrating. As a matter of fact, if I am not watching out the screen and so I do not realize to be writing in a wrong place, I cannot correct promptly my text which soon becomes unusable.
For your information, I tried to write the draft of this message with Gedit to test if the problem occurs as well and I experienced no difficulties on writing.
I asked to myself: Does the bug comes out only when a browser is involved?
So I closed the Browser and suddenly I verified that pointer of the touch-pad was crazy (jumping around and opening unwanted windows and applications) so I had the impression that the bug is independent from the use of a internet connection.

It should be considered that the difficulty on writing e text, together with the problem of crazy touch-pad has been the main reason to prefer Windows system to Ubuntu.
I hope that the bug be fixed to prefer Ubuntu soon.


** Attachment added: "Bug646860.avi"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/646860/+attachment/1666555/+files/Bug646860.avi

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Touch-pad crazy with Ubuntu 10.04 on laptop Aspire 8530
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