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Heh. On a laptop, it's due to your palm brushing against the mouse pad and sending the cursor off in some random direction.
 
Anyone else getting typing lag on a Linux system (Ubuntu and Mandriva for me) using Firefox on this site? It's like my letters appear a few seconds after I type them.
 
Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon (Ubuntu derivative) and CentOS 6.5 (RedHat) ... tried Firefox, Chrome* and Opera ... no lag.


*Chrome isn't supported on CentOS.
 
EarlyMon said:
I once got so disgusted with an out of control touchpad that I fixed it with a hammer and a Logitech mouse.

I don't recommend it.

But it worked out really well for me. :D
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Kindred spirit.

mikedt said:
And if thine touchpad offend thee, pluck it out.
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Preach on Father Mike.

Dngrsone said:
... or at least turn it off. Depending on your model of laptop, there may be a software solution.
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I ended up doing just that and it went away. But it was happening even if I was careful to keep my palms and wrists elevated and nowhere near the pad. Definitely some glitch. Fortunately I prefer to use a wireless mouse anyway.


As to the typing lag, I've yet to experience that. But I don't use Firefox.
 
I type and the words don't appear until a few seconds later. It happens on both a new laptop running Ubuntu 14.10 and an older Dell running Mandriva 2010. The Dell I can understand but not lag on a computer running 3GB RAM. The UI is smooth just typing plays catch up on this particular forum.
 
have you tried cleaning your cache out in your browsers? I am on Fedora 21 right now using Midori and my typing is showing up instantly. Will confirm once again using firefox.

Ok now with firefox and again no issue. typing is as expected showing up just as fast as I type it.
 
Yup. No dice. Does it on fresh install. Affects only this site and Facebook.

I'll probably need a video to prove it.

If it helps it does throw a slow script warning. I hit 'stop script' as well as disabled Flash but still happens
 
I tried again last night on FF in Mint and I was getting some very odd slowness with Android Forums that I wasn't seeing in Chrome or Opera, but it wasn't in the composition box. Pages were slow to load. Hmmmm :confused:
 
I've seen that teletype behavior on mobile browsers when the devs had bloated the css code by mistake but not for some time.

When it's not us, it's usually a proxy or VPN problem.

Have you changed your OOM settings here in Linux?
 
Not on Linux. Just out of box state.

Issue is browser independent. Happens on Chrome as well. I'm typing but the letters appear on the screen a few seconds after I type them resulting in typos I have to go back and fix.

Doesn't happen on the Android version of those browsers
 
Hello -
I'm new here, and, I'm interested in partitioning our HD - and installing something Linux-based that would enable me to install recording software, and use it - without audio latency, DirectMusic and MIDI lag... anyone knowledgeable enough to help me, I thank you in advance. Also, thank you, bjacks12, for inviting me to join you here in the learning process. Hello to EarlyMon, mikedt, and nickdalzell. LW
 
LOveWerks said:
Hello -
I'm new here, and, I'm interested in partitioning our HD - and installing something Linux-based that would enable me to install recording software, and use it - without audio latency, DirectMusic and MIDI lag... anyone knowledgeable enough to help me, I thank you in advance. Also, thank you, bjacks12, for inviting me to join you here in the learning process. Hello to EarlyMon, mikedt, and nickdalzell. LW
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Studio64 may be something that will do what your wanting I have never used it but heard good things about it. Its debian based.

As far as partitioning the HD I have to ask a couple of questions. First will this be a dual boot or a clean one OS install? Are you familuar with Linux drive schemes?

Also in Linux, Mac or Windows check out Audacity its an awesome recording and editing app.
 
KDE USERS
Does your notification tips steal focus away from your keyboard when you are typing? Every time I am typing when the notification pops up and the next thing I know I'm typing in a run box instead of what I was on. I don't think this has ever happened before so wondering if a recent KDE update has caused this issue.
 
argedion said:
Studio64 may be something that will do what your wanting I have never used it but heard good things about it. Its debian based.

As far as partitioning the HD I have to ask a couple of questions. First will this be a dual boot or a clean one OS install? Are you familuar with Linux drive schemes?

Also in Linux, Mac or Windows check out Audacity its an awesome recording and editing app.
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I'm not familiar with Linux drive schemes, aside from what I've heard about Ubuntu,
and Debian.

I had an Audacity mixer installed in a Win XP Media config a couple of years ago. I'm just a former MOTU Mac user back in my better days, and the DirectMusic/MIDI & audio latency I've ran into with PreSonus Studio One 2, installed in an AMD A6 Vision-powered Toshiba C875 running Windows 8.1 has me getting ready to use my Gold coverage warranty, and send this rig back. I'm very upset.

If I had the money, I'd be back on a MacBook Pro in a second. Being limited to 32 & 64-bit packets of data really bothers me, not to mention Windows 8.1 - soon to be replaced with Winblows 10, which I've tested and found to be sub-par.

Feel free to start a conversation with me if you'd like, so I don't gum up the works in this thread. LW
 
I feel ya with Windows I do. As far as Linux and its drives schemes its not difficult you just have to make sure you understand what is what. Shouldn't be much different than Mac both are UNIX based.

And as far as "gum" up the thread bro that is why it exist. :)
 
I was wondering about setting up two separate boots; can that be done, when you first turn on the computer? A friend had his laptop set up that way, when Vista was current; I forget the name of the Linux OS he used, but, it was a black background, red-lettered speedy little guy that worked on a 1.4 gHz mini-laptop. LW
 
Sure. It's pretty easy. First though we need to know what the other OS will be. Windows 8.1 with UEFI can be a little tricky.

Here's the quick version for standard BIOS settings with Windows 7. You click on the start menu, right click on "computer" and chose manage. From there you select "disk management" in the left column and all your physical drives and volumes should show on the right. Assuming you only have one disk, you select the main (C: ) partition and right click and select "shrink volume".

Shrink it to what you feel comfortable with remembering that Windows will require more disk space than Linux. For a 500 GB drive, I free up about 150 GB, but if you are going to be working with lard files you might want more.

When that's done (it should only take a minute) then you reboot using the liveCD (or live USB) and choose install. All modern distros will give you the option to install alongside existing OS's. It will take that 150GB of sapce, create an EXT4 partition and a swap partition and install linux there. It will also install the GRUB bootloader which will give you menu to select which os you boot with.
 
lunatic59 said:
Sure. It's pretty easy. First though we need to know what the other OS will be. Windows 8.1 with UEFI can be a little tricky.

Here's the quick version for standard BIOS settings with Windows 7. You click on the start menu, right click on "computer" and chose manage. From there you select "disk management" in the left column and all your physical drives and volumes should show on the right. Assuming you only have one disk, you select the main (C: ) partition and right click and select "shrink volume".

Shrink it to what you feel comfortable with remembering that Windows will require more disk space than Linux. For a 500 GB drive, I free up about 150 GB, but if you are going to be working with lard files you might want more.

When that's done (it should only take a minute) then you reboot using the liveCD (or live USB) and choose install. All modern distros will give you the option to install alongside existing OS's. It will take that 150GB of sapce, create an EXT4 partition and a swap partition and install linux there. It will also install the GRUB bootloader which will give you menu to select which os you boot with.
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Thank you - I'll give it a whirl using Classic Shell, as it provides a real Start menu. LW
 
Another option would be to pop in an additional physical drive and install Linux there, then you can use the computers boot menu to select which drive it boots from.
 
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