Sounds like the OP changed to a new mouse that isn’t Logitech. I’ve had nothing but Logitech mice from way back and never had a problem with them. You may want to switch back.
Aside from the fact that I found the problem with this mouse and fixed it, I have not had good luck with Logitech wireless vertical mice. They are expensive but not, apparently, reliable (based on a data set of two of them that went bad in only a few months each).
Dang, late to the party once again.
They are not that bad; even if the capacity is not 100% of that of a primary cell (which is not necessarily the case—some brands are good) it does not matter that much for a mouse
See Post #14. They claim their jiggler is undetectable. No idea if that is true but you can certainly Google for solutions to evade the detection your company is trying.
Not trying to make you a scofflaw. I am sure you are a diligent drone member of the Acme workforce.
I’ve had this behavior, and it was an undercharged battery. So I agree with this post.
Lol. That’s new to me. I wonder if the market is people who work from home are are monitored as to their “active screen time”, or something stupid like that.
Me, too.
I get a grace period of a few seconds between screen off and computer locked. So if that happens to me, i manually wiggle my mouse, and everything pops back up.
In my case I have remote windows to multiple machines going. Sometimes the window is in the background where I can’t see it, but I’d like to bring it up again and start interacting again. But it’s usually logged me out by then.
Their policy is designed for people in the office that walk away from their desks from time to time and forget to lock their computers. But I work from home and there’s no point to such a policy. I wish I could opt out.
I worked for a while in online casino software dev, where forgetting to lock your machine was anathema, because we had access to vast amounts of valuable customer data. Theft of data is rampant in that industry.
So the dev team culture was to prank anyone who foolishly left their laptop unlocked. Obviously highjinks ensued, on occasion. I mean this was still the time that the “pumpkin” theme existed in Windows.
However… we all did our work on Windows machines, but the code was PHP (yeah, I know) which was deployed to Ubuntu servers. So we all had virtual machines to test on, running Ubuntu.
But in a grevious breach of operations security, it was easy to guess the password of a collegue’s VM.. and I did.
A not well known feature of the Ubuntu terminal- where we did much of our testing work - is the ability to set a custom background and font.
So my collegue one day arrived, worked for a bit, deployed some code and went to check it running on his VM. To his horror his terminal window now had bright pink comic sans text with a background image of a bright pink unicorn farting rainbows.
That’ll learn 'em!
It happened to me again (the jiggler got clicked accidentally, I still don’t know how that is happening) and I didn’t remember the solution, only that there had been one. Fortunately, I did remember this thread. I’m thinking about putting a piece of tape over that little button, or something to keep it from happening. Also because it collects dust, and that accumulation of dust may be triggering the switch.
Then the word “jiggler” made me think of a 50s horror movie, like the Tingler, only this one would be a giant fat man who jiggles when he walks and makes earthquakes. Attack of the 50 Foot Jiggler.
You can bookmark this thread in Discourse so you don’t struggle to find it next time you need it.
I have a couple like that which are long running threads that get fresh postings rarely enough that they’re nowhere to be found in latest or unread when I want to add something to them.
I wish I could say the same.
I realise this is a revived thread, one which was solved back in it’s first run. But when I read the title I was going to suggest checking your UBS ports for another dongle and someone pranking you with another mouse and laughing at your efforts to figure it out.
Thank you, in this case I didn’t have to struggle, I just searched on the word “cursor” and it came up first. But bookmarking is certainly very useful.