Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread amin...@mailbox.org
I've seemingly entered a strange mode in Kdenlive where when I try to select a clip it instead moves the playhead to wherever I just clicked. This setting appears to survive restart of Kdenlive. Have I accidentally enabled some strange per-project setting? And most importantly, how do I turn it

Re: Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread amin...@mailbox.org
Another clue: I'll attempt to group or ungroup clips, and get an error "Cannot perform operation while dragging in timeline" If anyone can help in the next ~3 hours, this is seriously impacting an important deadline. Thanks, Tom On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 01:11:27PM -0800, amin...@mailbox.org wr

Re: Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread Evert Vorster
Sticky keys? It sounds like one of the shift or alt keys on your keyboard is stuck? Try switching between normal (s) cut (x) and move (m) modes on the keyboard Open notepad, and type some text, see if all the keys on your keyboard work as expected. Those are my guesses... Evert Vorster Awesome

Re: Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread amin...@mailbox.org
Hi Evert, thanks for the help. In other applications Shift and Alt behave as expected. I've switched between normal, cut, and move/spacer modes with no apparent change. Another strange thing: right-clicking a clip no longer brings up a menu (in Kdenlive - in other applications, no problem). T

Re: Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread Evert Vorster
Interesting. In troubleshooting, it's usually the thing you were playing with last that is causing the current problem. So, what happened between the last time it was working properly, and now? Have you tried renaming or removing your kdenlive config files? If you have only made minimal config c

Re: Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

2022-11-30 Thread amin...@mailbox.org
My ~/.config/kdenliverc file is the only thing that's changed in the last months. I removed it, restarted kdenlive, and although everything looks different (my preferences are back to defaults), I'm seeing the same behavior! Another weird symptom: with the playhead over a clip in normal mode, I