upon closer inspection, it seems that its caused by the x11 gestures extension and touchegg, but im not too sure for now, i have disabled x11 gestures and restarted the gnome shell and im currently waiting for it to happen again. as for the system infomation bit, while yes i know thats helpful, its not always needed for certain cases, ive seen others have a similar issue that always has the inxi info but it just never explains anything and doesnt help, but in case im wrong
@Lillie This reply won’t solve your problem, but might point you in a better direction …
I’ve had similar issues (albeit on an older MacBookPro that I’m now happily dual-booting with Manjaro) where the touchpad cursor would fly all over the place and “do it’s own thing” - including clicking on various menu choices.
After much research and trial and error I concluded it was a hardware thing - not a software (or operating system) thing. At least this got me heading in the right direction.
In your case, your ASUS laptop from 2020 vintage seems quite a bit too young to begin to show such malfunctions. Have you checked out ASUS support and/or forums to see if other owners are having related issues?
im not too sure what would the issue hardware wise outside a bad connection, but i havent open this laptop in months, but its actually from 2018 and i dont have warranty or anything as im not the original owner. as for contacting asus, im not sure whether or not they would just say for me to use windows or try updating a bios. At some point i may test if it happens in the bios (since i cant afford to install windows on this just to test a mouse issue)
Ah, sorry - I googled the model and it came up 2020, not 2018. At 4 yrs old and second hand, it’s a little more likely what you’re describing is a misbehaving piece of hardware. The contacts within trackpads can get persnickety over time.
A few quick thoughts:
1- Have you got any other operating systems on this laptop? If so, you might see if they produce the same result - indicating it’s hardware, not software.
2- You might buy a cheap USB-trackpad and connect it to see if it misbehaves, too. If not, it would point to your native trackpad being the culprit, since the same pointer instructions would be sent to the software/operating system through either input device.
Tried this and there were no issues whatsoever, so im lead to believe its a software issue. but im not entirely sure what it could be outside something in gnome or a driver
I know that it started at some point a week or so ago and the mouse will sometimes change how it moves, but im not sure what is causing it, im wondering if its just a gnome 41 bug
added a new user and no issue to speak of, and upon switching back to my user it very clearly shows that the mouse has an issue in software as it is being perceived differently, and is more of a sluggish smoothed movement versus a precise quick one
So if a new user doesn’t have any issue (you could try again to make sure) then the issue is probably is some configuration file in your user folder or some customization to the desktop. I don’t know GNOME at all but to me all the tests you have done seem to indicate that (different OS no issue, different kernels same issue, different user no issue).
If you don’t care about your desktop settings you may simply move your files to the new user and call it a day. You will need to reconfigure the desktop to your liking, and maybe install some customization you did like GNOME extensions (do everything in steps in case you stumble again on the issue, you may have a clue what caused it, don’t do everything at once to speed up the process, do changes one by one, maybe reboot in between).
If you want to keep everything in your user configuration, then you’ll have to dig deeper and find what’s wrong in the desktop configuration, what is conflicting, what is broken (application, extension, and so on…) or whatever the issue is.
i made this topic to see if someone else has seen this and knows a quick solution so i dont have to migrate everything, but i guess its just a weird quirk or bug that isnt common in gnome 4x, maybe ill try a different DE and see if its just a gnome thing
did a quick try with kde and it still persists, so its not the DE, its some config somewhere, but that doesnt make any sense as ive never touch mouse settings after the initial setup. So my guess is that somewhere, something got messed up or broken
Alright so, i watched journal -ffor a bit and noticed that this is somewhat of a bug, it shows its a kernel bug for the touchpad, with a link to Touchpad jumping cursor bugs — libinput 1.19.3 documentation explaining things. so i guess i just need to see when it gets fixed