Hey I’m using I believe OPENsuse Leap I don’t know what version if you want me to find out tell me how to view the version you want to know. Anyways the mouse when I am playing games and browsing using the mouse on the kde desktop it doesn’t work right it moves by itself and messes me up. It is very annoying and very bothersome if I could fix this some how please tell me. I will move the mouse and it changes its location and then moves from that location randomly. I have tried finding a kde 3 desktop to install but I cant find that so I don’t know what to do I am using a kde plasma desktop and it doesn’t work right. Just want to add that I was using a kvm when I installed linux so that might be a problem but I unplugged the mouse and started using two mouses because I thought that would work but it doesn’t. the mouse acts funny still on linux maybe it got permenantly broken cause of the kvm I don’t know. do you think its the mouse and is there anyway to fix it? the mouse worked great for my latop before the kvm problem.
just want to add that sometimes it seems that its trying to assist me but it doesn’t work right maybe that is part of the problem i don’t know?
cat /etc/os-release
If it’s an optical (or laser) mouse try using it on a different surface.
Check in KDE “System Settings -> Input Devices -> Mouse -> Advanced” that you have “sensible” (Acceleration approx 1.0 and Pointer Threshold approx 4-6 px) settings.
im using leap 15.0 but I cant find system settings to check the mouse thing.
wait I found the system settings. I will let you know if that worked.
seems to be working better, it might be my imagination but for a brief second i thought it acted up again ill keep trying and post back again.
yea its still acting up but its not as bad. but its still acting up.
Faulty mouse perhaps … ?
Are you able to try a different mouse on that machine to see if that (mis)behaves in the same way?
If it’s a USB mouse it might be worth trying it plugged into a different port.
Other than those suggestions, I don’t really know I’m afraid, but my “feeling” is it’s a hardware rather than software problem. Although you could try the old “catch-all” and re-boot.
It might be the mouse I am not sure its just that there was nothing wrong with the mouse before I tried using it on a kvm with leap. It worked fine for my laptop. Thank you tho it did help some by changing those settings.