Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu
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- Subject: [mg118153] Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
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On 13/04/2011 10:53, ChrisL wrote: > Dear all, > > Ever since I've upgraded to Mathematica 8, the interface presents a > very strange behaviour; it becomes either unresponsive or > misinterprets the keyboard, and is generally a bit sluggish. > A typical example is that if I start typing a bit fast, the cursor > jumps to a new line (*). Another example is I press the down key but > the cursor goes up, repeatedly. > > I don't have these issues with the workbench, so it's restricted to > the interface. > > Is there any I can do? Would upgrading to 8.0.1 fix things? > This is becoming really impossible to work from the interface. > > Thank you in advance, > Cheers, > Chris > > * not an issue with the laptop's trackpad, I'm fairly sure. I haven't > started to type differently since Mathematica 8.0.0. And clicking from > the trackpad is disabled anyway. > I also noticed that 8.0.0 would become very sluggish at random times - so sluggish that the keys backed up, and I could stop and watch them appearing! I found it so bad that I dropped back to version 7. Fortunately, the problem has gone with 8.0.1. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk