[P1] very weird thing with trackpad

[Don Hinkle]

Something I do is, in OS 9.x, keep an alias for the trackpad control
panel on my desktop. When the dreaded cursor slodown hits, I click on
that, and as it opens, I move the cursor toward it; usually that fixes
the problem.
-don

Anders Bogdan wrote:
> 
> yup and its annoying when it happens - BUT you don't have to reboot!
> just sleep your iBook and then wake it up.
>  From the keyboard,  option-command-eject and hold for a bit, wait til
> its soundly asleep then wake it up. Your normal cursor movement should
> be restored (at least under osx)..
> :)
> anders
> 
> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 10:36  PM, Shahara9 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Now, this has happened twice...
> > My house is really dry (since its been 0 degrees outside lately)
> > and when I sit at the computer and touch the keyboard, I sometimes get
> > (give?) a big shock
> > then...my 'mouse' trackpad goes v e r y   s l o w l y, and I have to
> > move my
> > fingers
> > over and over to get the 'mouse' to move, a little at a time (like 15
> > times
> > to move across screen).
> > When I re-boot, it works fine again.
> >
> > Weird, huh?
> > ~shahara
>