I am running Snow Leopard on a new MacBook Pro. I have noticed that often when I am typing, the cursor will jump to another location. So, I might be typing on a line and then suddenly, the cursor will jump to a line, usually above the line that I had been typing on.
View 8 RepliesI just got this new 17" powerbook two months ago. Everything seemed fine until this past weekend when I tried to do some work on it. No matter the program, Word, Quark etc., whenever i go to type in sentences or paragraphs, suddenly the cursor will jump to another area of the paragraph. There seems to be no consistency and I can't figure the cause.
I checked all the preferences and that doesn't seem to change it.
Could I have a faulty keyboard? Has anyone else heard of this and know what to do.
When typing my cursor will skip back and I end up typing between words.
Marsha
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MacBook Pro 4,1,Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHZ, 2 GB Ram,, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Ipad 3g, 16G, Iphone 3G, 2010 Apple TV
Cursor going nuts, jumping backwards?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Hey guys, I was just wondering if its possible for me to upgrade to snow leopard using the 10.6.7 grey install disk? A friend of mine is willing to lend me his but I'm not quite sure if it can. So my question is, can I use his grey install disk with version 10.6.7 to upgrade to snow leopard or do I need the retail snow leopard disk?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
(For reference, this is happening on my new 15" Retina Macbook Pro, and the trackpad update has been applied.)I'm not sure if this is a trackpad issue or if I'm somehow clicking "wrong," but I've noticed this issue with my trackpad, and it hasn't happened on the previous macs I've used.About 20% of the time, when I click on something with my trackpad, the cursor jumps all the way down to the dock and clicks there. This ends up opening random programs and is generally annoying. Clicking also sometimes "deselects" and grays out the current window, which is generally odd.This typically happens when I'm working quickly or clicking the button hard, so I'm not sure if maybe there's a trackpad setting I don't understand or I'm inadvertantly making a multitouch gesture to select the dock? (Is that even possible?) Am interested to find out if this is something I'm doing wrong or if this is an actual trackpad issue.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I cannot see what I am typing in some question box's. I am using AOL as a server. I get a black box to enter text details in to but cannot see anything whilst typing, only if I highlight the text box can I see what I have typed.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
So recently my mac has decided to hide my Cursor/Pointer while typing, it doesn't really bother me much when i am browsing the web, But when i start to talk to my friends online then i have problems.
So when I'm typing to a friend the IM ( MSN ) hides the cursor so after i finished typing and press Enter then the message will send then realizing i have made a mistake or want to add a quick message on to the IM then i must have to click on the type box again because it dont keep init for some reason.
So i have looked in System Preferences and can't find nothing to turn this off.
Anyone experienced this after installing Snow Leopard?
When I open a conversation I can't see what I am typing nor cannot see what I have typed when I press the Send button.
I have a MacBook with MacOS 10.5.5 The cursor will jump randomly when typing in programs such as Word or e-mail programs. I haven't been able to find a cure.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I'll move over a textbox and then it changes to the I bar cursor, but then I move away and it stays that... I move over a link and it turns into the finger icon, then I move away and it's still a finger.
Still in the beginnings of diagnosing, but I do have two user accounts logged in. The other account only has a Safari window open though, nothing exciting.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Was wondering if there is some way to disable the auto-open cursor hover feature? (Not sure what else to call it). It's driving me nuts.It's most disfunctional with Safari--for example when I'm trying to find a specific webpage in the Histor-- if I don't keep moving the cursor constantly, whatever URL the cursor happens to be over will just open and load.Then I have to start over again. This seems to happen sometimes on the desktop as well.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)
I often take screenshots to explain things on the FCP X forum etc.Â
In FCP X, like most video editing apps, the cursor can change its appearance dramatically according to what tool you are currently using. Unfortunately taking a screenshot does not display the cursor or its appearance at that moment.Â
I have a workaround involving making a video of the screen and cursor using Screenflow but this is ridiculously complicated. Is there a simple way of recording the cursor's icon on a screenshot?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), FCE 4 + FCS 3 . . . Little Knowledge, Many Opinions.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), i5 with Thunderbolt
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