Pointer jumpy on MPB (Leopard) after wake from sleep...

I don't think Widgets that are just sitting there in your ~/Library/Widgets list get loaded into memory at all.

They are completely inert, until they are loaded into your own Dashboard.

But hey, whatever worked for you, dude. 🙂

That's what I thought, too. Until I removed it. Not so inert, dude.

Sorry, but I am skeptical of your claims. While I only have 10-12 widgets loaded on my Dashboard at any given time, I have 116 widgets in the ~/Library/Widgets folder, in addition to the 20 in /Library/Widgets. You'd think if they loaded anything... my system would reflect that. Yet, no inactive one shows up in Activity Monitor.

And I've seen this issue pop up on a brand new, just out of the box MacBook Pro, without any iStat loaded.

So perhaps your anecdote makes you think that "having the iStat file on your hard drive" was what caused the issue... but that's purely anecdotal. More likely, it's a broader issue with Airport in general, as has been surmised later in the thread. I have no iStat at all, and I can make the issue occur by toggling Airport on and off right now.

Hi,

I did a search for "istat" and Spotlight returned nothing. So, I did delete it.

I just did the pointer jumping trick for kicks (turned off airport, turned it on mouse goes nuts until it finds my home network).

Mace

have you tried installing 10.5.2 to see if this fixes the issue?

Yessssss.... I just installed 10.5.2 from the Apple Menu... along with the other stuff there (don't remember it all, iLife, Pro Apps and such). And.... my computer was searching for a wireless network for a full 15 seconds (after I turned airport off and on) and the mouse was completely under my control!!

Hope this fix works for all.

iCal still sukz... but hey, you can't have everything.

Mace

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I just re-installed iStat Pro version 3.4 (I had it on my iMac) and no jumpy pointer when searching for wireless networks.

I think Leopard pre-10.5.2 was buggy (well, OK, 10.5.2 is still buggy but in many different ways).

Later,

Mace

I wanted to wait a week before posting, but 10.5.2 100% fixed my jumpy mouse issue.

I've never used Istat so my issues were different than the majority of people in this thread, but they were annoying nonetheless. After letting the computer sit idle for about an hour, the mouse would move sluggishly until I either cycled the bluetooth or slid the mouse cover on and off, but not anymore.

Thank you 10.5.2.

Same here. Haven't seen the problem since that update. Looks like the problem with crashing or jerkyness while changing Airport networks is fixed too. Also, the problem with bluetooth being disconnected when waking might be gone too. Still haven't verified that one though.

PS: That iStat thing is bogus. People get an idea in their head and can't exorcize it. I did not have iStat and had the problem.

Hi,

The other day I used my computer for the first time outside the house at a cafe. I put the computer to sleep at home and then went to the cafe and woke it up. The mouse pointer was pretty much stuck in the upper left corner of the screen and I could barely control it with the trackpad. I managed to get it to the menu bar over by the Spotlight icon and got a click in, which activated the Spotlight menu item. I arrowed over to airport and it was "scanning" (but not registered on any network) so I arrowed down to "Turn airport off". I regained control of the pointer! So, 10.5.2 did not completely solve the problem, but.......

Before this incident I reinstalled iStat Pro (version 4.5). So, I'm not sure if iStat pro had anything to do with it or not.

I guess more testing is required.... but, I was disappointed that the problem came back even after updating to 10.5.2.

Mace

I believe I have pinpointed what triggers the jumpy or unresponsive mouse for me, and it falls in line with Mace.

Whenever I am using the airport (say at school) and then put my MBP to sleep without turning off airport and then wake it from sleep somewhere where a wireless connection is not available (like at home) I will get a black screen for 30 seconds to a minute. When the screen finally does come to life, the trackpad mouse is very jumpy or unresponsive, and a restart is always necessary. However, my generic cheapie USB mouse will usually work just fine.

So as long as I remember to turn off the airport before I put my computer to sleep, I'm fine. But when I do forget, it is just really annoying and inconvenient.

I've also had this problem for quite some time and it has been driving me crazy, I keep following this forum hoping that someone's solution would address the problem. I glanced at my mouse pad (some frog thingy and wondered if maybe the complex drawing was confusing the mighty mouse, so I removed it and am just using the plain desktop and I haven't had one instance of the issue since. FYI, my issue did not seem to involve coming out of sleep and I wasn't running any of the apps that other folks suspected were the problem. Hope this helps others

Same issue. Add me to the list.

It happens for me not every time, but about one in six times. The effect is the same with a bluetooth mighty mouse. I'm on 10.5.2, and I do have iStat Pro Menus and the widget - I disabled network related views on both, but too recently to come to any conclusion as to whether that fixed things.

Occasionally, also, when waking up from sleep my Macbook Pro 2.4GHz SR flips out - there's really no cure for this but to force shutdown via the physical button. Other times the login screen doesn't have focus, which doesn't ake any sense, other times I have a beachball as I type my password, and other times still I have a permanent, un-animated beachball that acts as a regular cursor within the OS for a few minutes, occasionally permanently. Those are some of my login/sleep related issues - OS X is incredibly painfully buggy as a whole for me and has been through several fresh installs of both Leopard and Tiger.

I am experiencing this problem and it makes me want to throw my beloved computer out the window. Typing this out, the cursor is lagging several words behind my typing. I am running 10.5.2 on a 2.4GHz MBP. I just did an Erase & Install, bumping it up from 10.4.10.

I have iStatPro running on my Dashboard. I have tried using Dashquit to kill the Dashboard, but nothing aside from rebooting helps. I too tried to turn off the Airport, which caused my cursor/pointer to become totally unusable. I'm assuming that this is an Airport issue. I haven't had a chance to really reproduce this bug, but I agree that it seems to happen every 5 or 6 times the computer wakes from sleep.

Can I subscribe to this to find out when the **** thing is fixed, or do I have to keep coming back here to check?

When the mac enters deep sleep, it won't wake up with a key press.. you have to use the power button, since the computer is essentially "off". Once when it boots up and it finds a sleepimage, it realises the previous shutdown reason was a deep sleep, then restores the image and goes back to normal (which it doesn't in my MBP .. everytime it wakes up from deep sleep I get graphic artifacts and have not choice but to reset the mbp)