pyCharm pro 2019.1.3 IDE editor icon follows mouse cursor to move most of the time
I find the pycharm IDE editor icon follows mouse cursor movement almost all the time, and frequently get into selection mode.
This is very obnoxious since people get distracted when they are focused on thinking and editing. Should I know if there is a way to "de-couple" the editor icon from the mouse cursor?
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Hi, do you mean the caret that is following the mouse cursor? That should not be happening. If you're sure that no other automation software is causing this behavior in the background, this is likely a bug. I've found a similar thread from 2017: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000577850-Intellij-IDE-caret-following-cursor
Users have reported that the issue happened when using GNOME desktop, and apparently everyone affected had touchscreen. Is it applicable to you?
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000577850/comments/115000610144
Also see: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-184110
Yes. that is exactly what I have: GNOME desktop, touchscreen.
It is such an obnoxious "deep bug" that the real cause of the issue is hard to find. I think Roundsparrow is right in https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000577850-Intellij-IDE-caret-following-cursor, and Chirag suggestion would work: Just touch the screen once and it will get solved.
Thanks a lot, Andrey!
Thank you so much! I just encountered the same bug with PyCharm 2022.1 on GNOME with a touchscreen. Seems that touching the screen fixes it, as suggested. I almost abandoned PyCharm because it was so obnoxious...
I am still regularly encountering this. I have a touchscreen but it has been disabled for months.
It's incredibly frustrating, the only way I've figured out how to make it stop is restarting PyCharm. Would love to know how to fix it.
Unsuprisingly, tapping my disabled touchscreen does nothing.
Using PyCharm Ultimate 2025.3.1.1 at the moment but I have had this behaviour persist over many updates now.
@Js, to check the issue please create YouTrack ticket and attach the logs archive, which can be found under Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data.
Dinara Tsydenova It has happened again just now. I attempted to create the logs archive but it warns that the logs may contain sensitive data, this does not seem sensible to share publicly. Could you please advise.
@Js, when creating a ticket in our tracker, you can limit its visibility to the JetBrains team only, which means the data will stay private and won’t be publicly available. You can find details here.