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random keyboard delay [SOLVED]

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I have a Dell Inspiron 11 3185 and I installed Linux Mint XFCE.
The delay is most noticeable in Firefox when I navigate the bookmark menus. I use the arrow keys to move the highlight from one item to the next. Sometimes I press an arrow key and nothing seems to happen so I press the key again and the highlight will skip one item. When I notice that I have pressed a key and nothing is happening, I wait and after 5 to 30 seconds, the highlight will move to the next item. I also notice this in terminal when using the up arrow to scroll through previous commands.
While typing, I notice a slight random delay as I type. Because I am adding characters to the queue, there is a slight delay as I type ( 0.1 second or less) then the screen shows the next couple of characters typed.
Searching, I found a similar report on Window that the author attributed to PCMService.exe but I don't think that applies. I installed XFCE and did not keep Windows.
Thank you for reading and any suggestions are appreciated.
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Re: random keyboard delay

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I did not think it would make any difference as I thought Mint was based on Ubuntu, but installing Xubuntu has so far fixed my keyboard issue.
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Re: random keyboard delay

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That's good, but disabling the visual effects of Mint Xfce might possibly have solved this as well. :wink:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... ts-in-Xfce
(item 5.3, right column)
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Re: random keyboard delay

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Pjotr's suggestion might work. Since Xubuntu, without disabling anything, still seems to have no keyboard issues, ( The mouse pad is also working a little better) that is my solution.
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