Re: Mouse weirdness

I've worked out the cause of the problem, and the weirdness of the apparent solution.

I broke both shoulder blades in a recent fall. In particular, I still can't raise my right hand onto the mouse pad on the right side of my keyboard, and there's no space for one on the left. So I put my wireless mouse on my desk above the left side of my keyboard pull-out shelf. When I reached for that mouse, my forearm was depressesing the CTRL key. When I tried the other mouse, a few inches away, it didn't. That explains the weirdness of one scroll wheel magnifying and the other scrolling, and then the first switching back to scrolling — because my forearm formerly dragging on my CTRL key has moved 1/2 inch to the left or right.

Being aware of this problem I can now consciously take care to avoid it.

One of the correspondents — I don't remember who — pointed out the relationship between the CTRL key and the mouse wheel — a relationship of which I was completely unaware — and that's what got me to thinking and carefully observing.

On Thu, 2025-05-08 at 15:17 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:

On Thursday 08 May 2025 12:42:38 pm gene heskett wrote:

On 5/8/25 09:33, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:27:54AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

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So, iiuc, one mouse works properly, and the other does not. My first suspect
would be the mouse hardware.

If the problem mouse is the wireless one, I'd also suspect the driver for the
wireless mouse.
Or the battery. Or the neighbour's microwave oven ;-)

The latter however would demonstrate only when the oven is actually in use.

One would be amazed at the leakage of a microwave oven door with worn
hinges has.

We as broadcasters are required to survey our transmitters for leakage
at license renewal times, checking for leakage high enough to sense
warmth, but with a calibrated instrument. Several ovens have been
detected that far exceeded the leakage stds in our lunch rooms. Any
engineer worth his paycheck checks his lunchroom microwave while
checking his transmitters. BTDT. A common 29 dollar ir thermometer
like I use for cooking food will also go nuts in the presence of such
leakage.

Cheers

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

If I happen to be sitting in the kitchen here when the microwave is in use, and I happen to be doing stuff on my phone that interacts with my hearing aids by way of bluetooth, the leakage from the microwave stomps on the bluetooth signal pretty good, much of the time...