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Sten Kin
Sten Kin

Reputation: 2615

Intellij cursor keeps following mouse and highlight

For some reason Intellijs text cursor keeps following my mouse and highlighting everything. Is there some setting that can do that? I can't seem to find it from searching the settings. Where else could it be?

Upvotes: 69

Views: 10270

Answers (5)

Marlow Fernandez
Marlow Fernandez

Reputation: 1

Mohammad Reisi's answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/72196705/22460400) worked for me. I had to open my laptop (I use 2 monitors with the laptop closed and touch the screen a few times and then closed the laptop and it worked.

Upvotes: 0

Mohammad Reisi
Mohammad Reisi

Reputation: 116

I use a touch screen monitor and i deal with the same issue. my mouse cursor remained in selecting state and highlight every thing. I touch somewhere on the my monitor screen once and solved this problem without closing app.

Other solutions are: close and open app / restarting computer

Upvotes: 3

junaid bashir
junaid bashir

Reputation: 11

Solution

  1. Go to setting

  2. Search for mouse

  3. In the editor action, edit the Add rectangular selection on mouse drag

Here is a helping Screen Shot

Upvotes: 1

Andrey Stukalin
Andrey Stukalin

Reputation: 5939

If you have a touchscreen try touching it somewhere. It helped me to solve the issue.

Found the solution in this thread on the JB website.

Upvotes: 196

Christian
Christian

Reputation: 3721

I had that problem twice on two different computers in different jetbrains IDEs, gogland and pycharm.

The solution, as annoying as easy, restarting of the machine. Restarting the IDE or even up/downgrading did not help.

Upvotes: 1

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