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Since moving to Big Sur, currently 11.4, I’ve had an intermittent malfunction of the mouse pointer. The arrow on screen has its point of effect or activation up to several centimetres away from what it is pointing at, in any radial direction.
Since I don’t know when it has gone suddenly askew, I find myself doing things I don’t want, such as deleting things, switching to other windows, or invoking functions at cross purposes to what I’m doing. Since there is no indication of where the arrow tip has landed, I don't know what I've just done. Also, it’s frustrating to try to change desktop unsuccessfully only to find that the pointer is invisibly missing the hot corner.
Also on occasion it will simply do nothing when I click the mouse, refusing to select a window, or provide work indicator in text.
The people at my local Apple store don’t know anything about it, and persuaded me to buy a new magic mouse which made no difference.
The malfunction is comes and goes, but seems to recur more often when I have used Mission Control, the poorer replacement for Spaces.
Sometimes it will go wrong when I haven’t used the Mac nor touched the mouse for several minutes. Also, having worked properly the night before, it is being obtuse the moment I awaken the computer the next morning.
It’s as if something, probably inside the computer, is irregularly interfering with the wireless connection between computer and mouse.
It seems to happen less often after a restart but becomes increasingly prevalent with more computer use.
I can clear the problem sometimes by wanging the mouse pointer round the screen in a desperate and hysterical way. [As I type this the pointer is activating between three character spaces to the left of where it should be.]
I wonder if this has only happened to me, or if it is a known, but rare, glitch.
Since I don’t know when it has gone suddenly askew, I find myself doing things I don’t want, such as deleting things, switching to other windows, or invoking functions at cross purposes to what I’m doing. Since there is no indication of where the arrow tip has landed, I don't know what I've just done. Also, it’s frustrating to try to change desktop unsuccessfully only to find that the pointer is invisibly missing the hot corner.
Also on occasion it will simply do nothing when I click the mouse, refusing to select a window, or provide work indicator in text.
The people at my local Apple store don’t know anything about it, and persuaded me to buy a new magic mouse which made no difference.
The malfunction is comes and goes, but seems to recur more often when I have used Mission Control, the poorer replacement for Spaces.
Sometimes it will go wrong when I haven’t used the Mac nor touched the mouse for several minutes. Also, having worked properly the night before, it is being obtuse the moment I awaken the computer the next morning.
It’s as if something, probably inside the computer, is irregularly interfering with the wireless connection between computer and mouse.
It seems to happen less often after a restart but becomes increasingly prevalent with more computer use.
I can clear the problem sometimes by wanging the mouse pointer round the screen in a desperate and hysterical way. [As I type this the pointer is activating between three character spaces to the left of where it should be.]
I wonder if this has only happened to me, or if it is a known, but rare, glitch.