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Hello All!


I have now bitten the bullet and created a new partition on my M2 SSD and installed v9 and also installed most of the rpm's and other stuff that was running before although I am sure I have missed a few.

I remounted the partition that holds /home.

Original problem that I had was that when moving the mouse the screen
content moves in the direction of the mouse - left right, up and down.

So it is some setting in my home/vince folder and no I cannot log in using other users as I use su - username to access their content etc.

Does any one know what the blasted setting is and how to turn it OFF ?

Many thanks for any and all help as it is really screwing up my eyes and
even more so if I try and use a text editor (kate) when coding.

Note that Alt/Ctl F2 - 6, 12 does not work.


Vincent


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On 2026-01-12, Vincent Coen <VBCoen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All!

I have now bitten the bullet and created a new partition on my M2 SSD and installed v9 and also installed most of the rpm's and other stuff that was running before although I am sure I have missed a few.

I remounted the partition that holds /home.

Original problem that I had was that when moving the mouse the screen
content moves in the direction of the mouse - left right, up and down.

So it is some setting in my home/vince folder and no I cannot log in using other users as I use su - username to access their content etc.

Sure you can. I am not sure what DM you use (sddm, lightdm) but you just
have to log in by chosing a different user in the (letc say)sddm login
screen and use that. Or if you do not know their userhame, go to
alt-ctrl-F2 and log in there, and then startx -- :2 to log into X.

It maybe tha tyour keyboard is messed up and the alt key is permanantly
on. thus when You move the mouse, it things you are doing alt-mousemove
( which drags the screen).

Does any one know what the blasted setting is and how to turn it OFF ?

If my suspicion above is true, they you need a new keyboard, or you need
to clean out the alt key.

Many thanks for any and all help as it is really screwing up my eyes and
even more so if I try and use a text editor (kate) when coding.

Note that Alt/Ctl F2 - 6, 12 does not work.

The above does not account for that.

Anyway buy yourself a bluetooth keyboard, and see if that helps.

Vincent

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Hello William!

12 Jan 26 07:48, William Unruh wrote to all:

On 2026-01-12, Vincent Coen <VBCoen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All!


I have now bitten the bullet and created a new partition on my M2
SSD and installed v9 and also installed most of the rpm's and other
stuff that was running before although I am sure I have missed a
few.

I remounted the partition that holds /home.

Original problem that I had was that when moving the mouse the
screen content moves in the direction of the mouse - left right, up
and down.

So it is some setting in my home/vince folder and no I cannot log in
using other users as I use su - username to access their content
etc.

Sure you can. I am not sure what DM you use (sddm, lightdm) but you
just have to log in by chosing a different user in the (letc say)sddm
login screen and use that. Or if you do not know their userhame, go to alt-ctrl-F2 and log in there, and then startx -- :2 to log into X.

It maybe tha tyour keyboard is messed up and the alt key is
permanantly on. thus when You move the mouse, it things you are doing alt-mousemove ( which drags the screen).

Does any one know what the blasted setting is and how to turn it OFF
?

If my suspicion above is true, they you need a new keyboard, or you
need to clean out the alt key.

Many thanks for any and all help as it is really screwing up my eyes
and even more so if I try and use a text editor (kate) when coding.

Note that Alt/Ctl F2 - 6, 12 does not work.

The above does not account for that.

Anyway buy yourself a bluetooth keyboard, and see if that helps.

Have now tested using other user logging in via SDDM - screen is set to
smaller resolution and there is NO appearance of same problem and like wise
if I increase resolution to max - so it is setting against my user acount / home folder etc.


Vincent



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