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Lately, when I start a minetest game, my player turns slowly and constantly to the left or up, even when I'm not pressing any buttons or moving the mouse. What could be causing this? It might not be minetest, as it does this even with all the default settings.

Your mouse lens on the bottom is dirty. My does this to sometimes.
Laser mouse right?

No, laptop touchpad. And it doesn't happen all the time.
EDIT: Actually I think its a driver problem. I just installed a driver and that seems to fix it. Idk why it only affected minetest, I didn't notice problems anywhere else.

My laptop touchpad completely burnt out awhile back. Gotta use wireless mouse:/

And it started up again... apparently that wasn't the problem. I'm confused.

There not made to last unfortunently. I had to dis assemble my whole laptop to disconnect the touchpad so it would stop freakin out when mine died: (

My laptop has a key to disable the touchpad, and the problem was still there when I disabled it.

:( bummer. I disconnected the wires.

random_input = true in minetest.conf?

sfan5 wrote:random_input = true in minetest.conf?

No; I suspect its not entirely minetest's problem, as even fresh installations with all the default settings do this. When I started playing today it worked fine for about 10mins, then abruptly started looking up again. Now its working again... you get the idea.

i can confirm this as a bug. I just got a brand new acer laptop and the camera slowly and constantly tilts up. in inventory the mouse stays put :S and it stays put on the desktop too

I switched monitors, and it started happening again. It seems to be related to the window size in some way. Resizing the window sometimes causes/fixes/changes it, and it never happens in fullscreen. Using fullscreen all the time is the only workaround I can come up with.

I got the same self turning problem with newest version 0.4.2rc1 on my laptop. It's slowly turning left in the window, but its turning up at fullscreen. There was no such problem with v0.4.1

dave wrote:I got the same self turning problem with newest version 0.4.2rc1 on my laptop. It's slowly turning left in the window, but its turning up at fullscreen. There was no such problem with v0.4.1

Are you using a touchpad or a mouse? For me, it happened whenever I touched the touchpad, but I could use a mouse fine.

I always used the mouse for Minetest. However, once I turned it on with only a touchpad and yeah, player moved slowly to the right and looked up. I thought it is a touchpad problem though (I have a crippled one), but it seems it' s not. However, I recommend the mouse ;).

I have that problem 2 when using my acer laptop. Just touch some time and wait. It should fix automatically.

I found this out WITH A NORMAL MOUSE.

If half of the Minetest window cannot be seen, the game will turn slowly because there is not enough area for the mouse to move freely; thus meaning you might have to move or re-size the Minetest window, of course until the movement becomes more acceptable.

Jordach wrote:I found this out WITH A NORMAL MOUSE.

If half of the Minetest window cannot be seen, the game will turn slowly because there is not enough area for the mouse to move freely; thus meaning you might have to move or re-size the Minetest window, of course until the movement becomes more acceptable.

Resizing the window a bit solves the problem. But it should be fixed in future versions...

i dont think its just in minetest...
my PC's HDD is broken, so i used to use my aunts laptop...
i played Minecraft there, first without a mouse, it also didnt move well...
when i took my PC's mouse, it worked fine...
it may be a laptop glitch or something, but not the games glitch/bug...

It has probably been a while since any of you have thought of this glitch, but maybe you could help me a bit.
I got the daily 3 days ago, and all this started. And got today's, but nothing changed.

Menche wrote:Lately, when I start a minetest game, my player turns slowly and constantly to the left or up, even when I'm not pressing any buttons or moving the mouse.

It is the same for me, but the glitch also causes scrolling through the HUD items.

Menche wrote:No, laptop touchpad.

Not my touchpad either, I have also tried disabling it, and connecting a USB mouse. To no avail.
My keypad and mouse are only a few months old, so I do not believe they are causing this.

Menche wrote:And it doesn't happen all the time.

But for me it does not give me a rest. For three days straight, ever since it started, it has not stopped.

sfan5 wrote:random_input = true in minetest.conf?

Nothing changed.

mauvebic wrote:in inventory the mouse stays put :S and it stays put on the desktop too

Mine does the same: Stays put in the inventory and chat box. On the desktop it does absolutely nothing other than what I cause it to do.

Menche wrote:It seems to be related to the window size in some way. Resizing the window sometimes causes/fixes/changes it, and it never happens in fullscreen. Using fullscreen all the time is the only workaround I can come up with.

In my case, this changes nothing. I have already attempted this in several ways, manners, and sizes.

CTMN wrote:I have that problem 2 when using my acer laptop. Just touch some time and wait. It should fix automatically.

Even thought I do not think it to be my touchpad or mouse, I attempted with both, and nothing changed.

Any help or ideas offered will be very much appreciated. Thank you! :)

Different issue, yours is caused by one of your devices registering as a gamepad, disable gamepad/joystick support in .conf. https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/4221

Wow, Thank you SO much! :)