Windows 11
There is a massive bug in v5.2.9: real-time color select from screen anywhere.
Turning it ON - via shortcut no less…hey it could be useful for picking colors from reference images displayed in different Pic Viewer software On TOp of Krita, right? - causes Krita to NOT STOP COLOR SELECTING from anywhere on the screen ON CURSOR HOVER. You bring the pen anywhere in Krita it instantly picks any color in view realtime reflecting it on the displayed color section on top.
You select black and white with D and X shortcuts, but these colors get instantly deleted and updated by this bug.
No LMB clicking anywhere, just hover the cursor anywhere on screen and colors always get picked AT CURSOR POSITION.
Could be fantastic if this realtime-color-pick-anywhere infinite loop could be stopped. But no, its a juggernaut! IT GOES ON!
Result: you cannot paint, because already on HOVER Krita color picks realtime the canvas background as well, so I guess you now always paint with the canvas color = INVISIBLE you can’t see nothing..
TRYING to kill it:
Deleting any shortcuts for color… “Left Mouse Button” ACTIONS scouring for this in configure Krita menus…
I deleted lots of canvas actions etc.. in Canvas Input Settings probably maiming extended functions laid down there totally uselessly.
The only way I could stop Krita realtime color selecting is I somehow clicked on COLOR PICKER tool and summoned that normal color picker window all painter softwares have, where I once LMB clicked on a color - maybe on a swatch? Then clicked OK. And from that moment on this supremely BUGGED function was turned OFF and I could work again. I need to finish my work, so I did NOT DARE to go near any color picker function in Krita. I just wanted to pick colors from my favorite reference pic displayer software. I guess no more!
What exactly did you turn on? I don’t have this in my Krita on the same version. It sounds like your control key is stuck or something. Have you installed any plugins?
Sorry, but “your report” is not very understandable. The only thing that seems clear, is that you have issues with color sampling.
But instead of briefly describing what you expected, what you did and what did not work as you expected it, it looks like there was a huge tank full of words, and you hit a hole in its bottom so all the words poured out in this topic.
If you want to disable Krita’s standard color-picker, you can do it under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Canvas Input Settings’’ >> ‘‘Alternate Invocation’’ and the setting “Sample Foreground Color from Merged Image” which you can disable there.
Then use the shortcut P from Krita’s ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Keyboard Shortcuts’’.
I think @baszermaszer report could be that if you assign “Space” as the hotkey for “Sample Screen Color” and then you activate it, seems you can’t select a color and Krita continues to detect colors under the cursor (I had to close and restart Krita).
Trying other hotkeys (tested “z” and SHIFT+“x”) it worked fine for me.
Can anyone else try to confirm the problem?
@baszermaszer which hotkey did you assign to “Sample Screen Color”?
That makes sense, @Skess01. Almost daily we help people with new shortcuts that don’t work because they didn’t first turn off the default shortcut that uses the same key (but I don’t know for sure that’s what happened here).
Try going to the Kritarc file delete it while krita is closed then open Krita.
If that does not work close it again and delete any custom shortcut keys while krita is closed and then start krita.
If neither os these work I would assume or the hardware has a issue or that you have an application interfering with inputs since you say you have a reference application around.
If you manage to fix the stuckness on it but then manage to get it stuck again by activating the colour on screen sampling. Please consider making a bug report and the steps how to reproduce it to the bug tracker site.
Without knowing if you use these apps, WeChat and the QQ-App are known to interfere with Krita (and if I understood that correctly, with some other software too), if you by chance use these chat apps, try to paint after you terminated them from your memory. It is not enough to minimize them into the system-tray, and you should check with your task-manager if they can’t be terminated via a close button or whatever exit menu-point, and if so, you should terminate them with your task-manager.
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