By the way, this problem is happening again. It's worse now - after moving to the left monitor (again), it seems to be doing some repeated clicking. I couldn't seem to stop it, despite turning both my mouse and keyboard off. I had to open the lid and click a couple of times on the touchpad before it went away.

This is really frustrating! The laptop is really new, so I don't know what's going on?!

I've had this problem occur on and off for the last few weeks. Resolving it is fairly easy - I have to simply open the lid of the laptop, and it's gone. My question now is this - Why is this even happening? This laptop is NEW and not heavily utilized at all. Besides, I use it connected to monitors, a keyboard and a mouse at all times. This has been a disappointing experience, and it's made worse by the fact that no other users have bothered to reply.

I have been having the same problem, even signing in and writing this comment was a struggle with the issue of the mouse randomly going off, gittering, and locking in a mouse click even when there isn't one.

I'm constantly being booted out while scrolling through websites and pages, as it suddenly thinks I am using a three finger gesture when I am not, and then subsequently locks me out of everything but scrolling in the selection window.

I didn't read all of your responses but do you have a touchscreen? I had a Samsung that was ghost clicking nonstop. It drove me insane. Turned out it was fingerprints on the screen.

Anyone find a solution to this? I'm seeing these symptoms running Ubuntu 18.04 (purchased developer edition running 16.04 and saw the problem before upgrading to 18.04, too).

Is anyone experiencing this problem on a non-Linux OS?

Already disabled touchscreen. Running current BIOS.

Pointer devices look like this:

xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DELL07E6:00 06CB:76AF Touchpad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN24F0:00 04F3:24F0 id=12 [slave pointer (2)]

I have the same problem too, may I know how to you fix it after a year? did u sent in to repair?

I have a Dell XPS 17 9720 with Touch Screen, it has the haunted cursor problem where things open on their own. Until there is a better solution go to the Control Panel, Device Manager, HID (human interface device), right click on HID compliant touch screen to disable the touch screen and the problem is temporarily solved, only now the touch screen doesn't work but you can use the laptop again without the ghost touch problem.