Mouse cursor jumping on the screen and clicking

[Mr_Magoo]

If it's happening when you use your touchpad, this might help:

The touchpad cursor is erratic

This might help: Especially for me, on that computer (now deceased... my kid unplugged it and somehow corrupted the BIOS on it. Yes, folks, the Dell Inspiron N-7110 is no more.) I put: "Option" "FingerLow" "30" "Option" "FingerHigh" "30" Basically, what's happening is that the touchpad has a tiny area where your finger touches, and you have to move outside that area for the touchpad to register movement... if that area is too small, even a tiny twitch of your finger will register as movemen…

Touchpad too sensitive

Ah... I understand the issue, now. Let me look at the .conf file and see if I can find anything. Ensure that synaptics is installed: sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synpatics I believe the path should be /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf Open that file in a Root Elevated Text Editor or in terminal with nano. See this section: Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" # This option is recommend on a…

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

Option FingerLow 30
Option FingerHigh 30