Location Cursor Jump to Random Lines While Typing

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AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
Kernel Linux 5.10.7-3-MANJARO x86_64
MATE 1.24.1
ASUS A15 TUF

Hi and greetings to you all…

I am new to Manjaro+Mate and I really like it so far. I have managed to get through several configuration, coming from Windows 10 environment but now I have this issue:

While typing, the location cursor Jumps to another line in the document, this is really frustrating as I have to keep fixing what I have already typed.

I do not touch the touchpad while typing.
The touchpad works very fine.

I googled this issue and found comments to add [“i8042.nomux=1”] to Grub but that didn’t help.
Also, I saw comments about [“SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad”] but not sure if that would help as my touchpad works fine.

Please does anyone have suggestions on how to resolve this issue.

Thank you

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You don’t have to actually be touching the touch pad for this thing to occur. Just hovering right above it is often already enough to trigger that effect. I am having this same problem myself on a notebook with another GNU/Linux distro. It’s due to static electricity.

There isn’t much you can do about it, other than disabling the touch pad and using an actual mouse instead. :man_shrugging:

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