Text auto-selected when I move the cursor
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This is weired and I confirmed it happens only and only inside Intellij .
I don't know how but when I move the cursor inside a file in Intellij it behave like if the SHIFT key is pressed, means it selects text with cursor movement.
I'm using Ubuntu, and as I Mentioned I opened Text ediror, Visual studio code, chrome browser. It happens only inside Intellij.
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Try resetting settings (File | Manage IDE Settings | Restore Default Settings) and in case it is still here, share a short screencast demonstrating the issue and idea.log (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085).
You can share it using https://uploads.jetbrains.com/
I'm having the same problem. It does not happens all the time, after rebooting the system it gets fixed. But it happens on seldom cases. I'm on ubuntu 20.04
Do you have a touch screen? There is an open issue related to touchscreen support. It affects all Java Swing applications (NetBeans, JEdit, etc).
To workaround the problem you can tap the screen again. This should disable the selection mode.
Okay interesting. Yes I have a touch screen but I was using the IDE in another monitor (not touchscreen). When it happens again I will try your solution. Thank you.
Same problem to me in Linux Mint but the workaround did the trick...
I have also a touch screen laptop connected to the monitor also getting this issue, I fix it by temporarily disabling my touch screen from a terminal.
First, need to get the ID by the following command
sudo xinput --list | grep touch
in my case output like this
⎜ ↳ Wacom HID 4941 Finger touch id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
Then disable
xinput disable 16
Hope that will help