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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



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