i keep having issues with the mouse pointer dissappearing to the edge of the screen while working on my emac. it's an optical mouse and the computer is the 4 year old 700mhz version if that helps any. i know there's a way to get the optical mouse to stop jumping, but has anyone tried techniques that they have found helpful in stopping this.
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yeah. change your mousepad.
I'm willing to bet that you have a black mousepad or a mousepad that has black stretches. It absorbs the light from the optical mouse and messes up the tracking. Get a light-coloured mousepad.
I operate my white pro mouse without a mouse pad. you dont even need one for an optical mouse, except I believe the earlier ones and the ones that use a laser instead of optical sensor. works fine, except the gray oval on the bottom gets dirty, but a simple q-tip and rubbing alcohol every week, and it's a joy to use.
btw, I also use a mousepadless setup for another optical mouse on my old dell. and my mother who uses a logitech optical for her laptop (internal trackpad is messed up), doesnt use one at all.
-digital
i use this mouse with no pad fine most of the time, but the pointer seems to occasionally go to the edge of the screen and stay there. i have a pad designed to work for optical mice, but i use it with my old apple mouse on my wallstreet because the ball itself doesn't work well on the surface of my desk. there are too many laptops and optical mice at my house for there to be any need for mouse pads.
Yep, optical mice of less than 10 years old or so don't usually need pads. I only use one because the runner on my desk is hell to mouse on. This photo shows a smaller runner than I have now. It's the same style but runs the whole top of the desk. Much harder to mouse on. And now I've got a full sized white Apple pro USB keyboard to contend with for desk space, so I had to cut the pad in half to get it to fit on the desk on the right. With the high tracking rez of newer mice, even half a pad is as good as a full pad on an older 100 DPI mechanical mouse.
well, the reason I stopped using one is because when I got my new desk 2 weeks ago (solid cherry!! ), it's compact form, especially on the roll out keyboard/mouse drawer leaves little room for a mouse pad, even if I tilt it vertical. and since only the keyboard is ADB (AppleDesign. last and best one ever), and my mouse is optical, I just trew the pad in the parts bin. works excellent.
-digital
the desk that the emac is on had the runner option, but the lack of space when it came to the keyboard and legroom just didn't work, so the computer and keyboard just sit together on the edge. the desk where my powerbook is as more colonial (and showing wear from constand computer use), and it works terrbily with the mouse ball. I'll see if i can dig up another mouepad somewhere, but i don't get why the pointer sticks to the top of the screen when the pattern of the desk with the emac is simply just a caramel finish. i would think it would be dark enough and that the wood grain would be a simple enough pattern, but with how the mouse is acting, i think it is the mouse itself. i'll clean off the desk and mouse and see what that does.