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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i've noticed this with my optical mouse... i think maybe some dust gets in the red eye sensor and reflects the pointer somewhere different. my pointer also sometimes will randomly jump to the other side of the screen, but this never happened before when i had a trackball. usually i can fix it by blowing on the sensor to remove any theoretical dust...
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Does your mouse pad have any black on it? if so, the optical sesor might be skipping as you go over the black bits.