Contiguous Selection Tool Cursor Icon and Modifier Keys

There’s a minor issue I keep running into with the Contiguous Selection tool. Sometimes I’ll want to add, subtract, or intersect from my selection using the modifiers shift, alt, and shift+alt respectively. Add Subtract and Intersect work as expected, with the tool icon changing to show a - or an x under the default icon. However, when I hold shift, the tool cursor icon changes to look like the quick canvas rotation tool (which I have set to space+shift). It behaves correctly and adds to my selection like I’d expect, it’s just that the icon is wrong.

Is there some setting I may have changed to cause this? I noticed that a fresh install of Krita without my settings imported doesn’t have this issue, I just don’t know where to start looking in the settings to find what I did.

Add and intersect should be + and x, not - and x. (maybe that’s just a typo?)

I would go through all the canvas input settings looking for shortcuts using shift. When you find one (or more), remove the shift modifier and see if that clears it up.

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Mistake. I meant to type Subtract there instead of “Add”

Ok, I’ll check there, thanks for the reply!

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Got it! I had a shortcut set for Shift+MiddleMouse to start Rotation Mode. Deleted that and now the cursor icons work as expected! Thanks so much for your help!

Edit: I think I understand how it works now. Krita will change the icon while waiting for the mouse key in that type of shortcut sequence. Because my shortcut was only Shift+MiddleMouse, it changed the icon while waiting for middle mouse to be pressed any time I held down shift.

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