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Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > It's somehow reproducible also without a scrollwheel. With default
> > config just press z or shift-z while the mouse pointer is anywhere
> > outside the layout but still within the pcb window. Using GTK.
> 
> That doesn't lock it up for me.  If I hit 'z' with the mouse over,
> for instance, the layers palette (or title bar, status bar, etc.),
> I get the prompt in the status bar and the disabled interface
> features, but when I click the layout pcb returns to normal mode.

Yes, that's why I wrote "somehow" - knowing what state PCB is in
when the bug hits (being unable to exit) is already very helpful
for isolating the problem.

I hadn't seen this disabled interface situation at all before.


//Peter