Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu
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- Subject: [mg118212] Re: irritating behaviour of the interface (Mathematica 8.0.0, Ubuntu
- From: ChrisL <chris.ladroue at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:36:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Thank you for the reply. I'll upgrade to 8.0.1 and keep my fingers crossed! Cheers, Chris On Apr 14, 12:07 pm, David Bailey <d... at removedbailey.co.uk> wrote: > 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 Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk