Cursor keeps scrolling to the top

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mohzim
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Cursor keeps scrolling to the top

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I have a strange issue whereby intermittently my cursor keeps scrolling to the top of the page. This is irrespective of the active application such as Firefox, Xreader PDF, etc. It seems that the OS forcefully scrolls to the top of the page. If I scroll to use the mouse and scroll down, the OS seems to pull it on top of the window forcefully.
Any guidance would be appreciated.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-90-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: K55VM v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K55VM v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: K55VM.211 date: 09/11/2012 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3610QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 36718 
  Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197 
  3: 1197 4: 1197 5: 1197 6: 1197 7: 1197 8: 1197 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 620M/630M/635M/640M LE] 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 390.144 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:0de9 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 2560x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 630M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.144 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0bea 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-90-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:0032 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.2 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp4s0f2 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: IMC Networks Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter type: USB 
  driver: btusb bus ID: 1-1.1:5 chip ID: 13d3:3362 serial: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 98.18 GiB (10.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 
  size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.40 GiB used: 49.07 GiB (5.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 74.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 62 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2800 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 268 Uptime: 2h 36m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 1.98 GiB (25.8%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
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VS19
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Re: Cursor keeps scrolling to the top

Post by VS19 »

Have a look at viewtopic.php?f=49&t=362308
It remind me at a similar problem I got and solved
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mohzim
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Re: Cursor keeps scrolling to the top

Post by mohzim »

Thanks. It was an inherent issue with my laptop keyboard. I disabled the keyboard with the steps in the link and have not had this problem again. I got bluetooth keyboard to cover me.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/160945/ ... l-keyboard
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