Cat Tales #24 Keyboard Cursor

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26 April 2017 at 10:01 

Felix's favourite sitting spot when anyone is in the office is on a keyboard, preferably Fester's laptop. Fester uses a pc for work and the laptop for tv and radio, either live or iPlayer.  If we're both in the office I expend a deal of effort in persuading Felix to walk around the back of the laptop.

It's not unusual for Fester to doze off whilst working.

We were in the office the other evening and Felix creeps, un-noticed, onto the laptop and settles down comfortably.  Eventually Fester wakes up, shoos Felix away and discovers the laptop screen has been turned through ninety degrees.  Instead of being landscape it is portrait.  And he thinks the mouse isn't working because he's shifting it so vigorously he can't actually focus on it.

 

So there are cries off "Me bloody cursor's gone!"

Replies of "It's there, stop moving the mouse."

"The mouse isn't bloody working, it's all over the place."

"Then stop moving it!"

Of course Fester had no idea how to return it back to landscape.

I had a vague idea about the control panel but with the mouse 'not working' even when we can get in there's no obvious screen orientation menu.

I suggest we ask Ferretfingers as he once turned his VDU's screen upside down in secondary school (the technician had to close down and reboot the whole school system to get it back).  However the atmosphere was so fraught communication was impossible.

Then "Thunderthighs come down here a minute"

Thunderthighs looks at the problem, laughs, says "hang on a minute", thunders back to the loft and down again, presses three keys and - hey presto - it's back as it should be.

"What did you do? Show me what you did!"

"Control, alt and an arrow key."

"Which arrow key?"

"Any arrow key."

Thunderthighs trundles off and peace, for a while, returns.