Clicks move playhead instead of selecting

[François Téchené]

Hi Tom,

Are you using Kdenlive on Linux? If so, you may try the appimage or the 
flatpak install. If your distribution's install has any kind of issue, 
using those other installs may help. Also, you can make sure that your 
Kdenlive is up to date with flatpak or with the latest appimage from the 
kdenlive website : https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

François


  On 12/1/22 01:30, amindfv at mailbox.org wrote:
> 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 Ctrl-R to cut a clip, and it gives me the error "No clip to cut". Not sure if this is usual behavior I just haven't noticed since it used to be much easier to select a clip before cutting it.
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 12:03:36AM +0000, Evert Vorster wrote:
>> 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 changes, just wipe them... if, on the
>> other hand you changed just about every setting, rename the config files to
>> .backup or something, and let kdenlive create new ones.
>>
>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kdenlive+config+files+location.
>> or
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=kdenlive+config+files+location&ved=0ahUKEwj064D2jtf7AhXJuaQKHXppABQQ4dUDCAo&sclient=gws-wiz
>>
>> Evert Vorster
>>
>> Awesome Chapters Tours
>> http://www.awesomechapters.com
>> Tel: +264 (0) 811477690
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 23:48, amindfv at mailbox.org <amindfv at mailbox.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> The only change I've noticed after restarting Kdenlive is that the "Cannot
>>> perform operation" error doesn't (at least not yet) appear when I ungroup
>>> clips with Ctrl-Shift-g
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:25:13PM +0000, Evert Vorster wrote:
>>>> 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 Chapters Tours
>>>> http://www.awesomechapters.com
>>>> Tel: +264 (0) 811477690
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 23:19, amindfv at mailbox.org <amindfv at mailbox.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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, amindfv at mailbox.org wrote:
>>>>>> 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 off?! I'd like the playhead to move only
>>> when
>>>>> I click the position ruler.
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Tom