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Can't select tab with mouse

#1

I have v3 & 4 both installed on Windows 10 Home. I can click a tab name to select the tab/ file/ window in v3 - the expected/ standard behavior. In v4 the caret is just positioned directly below the mouse click position of the tab but the click is otherwise ignored. ctrl+PageUp|Down work fine switching tabs.

My preferences below, although I deleted them all as a test & still same behavior
{
“auto_complete_commit_on_tab”: true,
“caret_extra_width”: 2,
//“caret_style”: “phase”, // doesn’t appear to make any difference
“color_scheme”: “Packages/User/AJH.tmTheme”,
“draw_white_space”: “all”,
“fade_fold_buttons”: false,
“font_size”: 10,
“gutter”: true,
//“hardware_acceleration”: “opengl”, no effect?
“hide_new_tab_button”: true,
“hide_tab_scrolling_buttons”: true,
“highlight_line”: true,
“ignored_packages”:
[
“Vintage”
],
“line_numbers”: false,
“margin”: 0,
“show_encoding”: true,
“show_sidebar_button”: false,
“show_tab_close_buttons”: false,
“tab_size”: 2,
“theme”: “Adaptive.sublime-theme”,
//“word_wrap”: “false” auto
}
thanks for any help

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#2

The following screencast is taken with your settings Safe Mode on Windows 10.

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The only reason I can imagine for ST to ignore clicks on tabs are issues with textures. A tab is clickable only if the texture is not transparent at the clicked position.

Maybe you have a tweaked Adaptive.sublime-theme file in your User package, which points to wrong textures?

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#3

Thanks for the quick reply deathaxe. Thanks for the tip on safe mode - nice new feature - tab clicking/ selection is working fine, as per your screencast, in this mode. I don’t have a file named “Adaptive.sublime-theme” & haven’t done anything intentionally with textures. As I said tabs are working fine in ST3 & other than the user preferences I posted, I’ve made no other changes.

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#4

deathaxe. any further suggestions on how I can solve this? is it a bug? I mostly switch tabs via the keyboard anyway, but is slightly annoying when the mouse is ignored when I have lots of tabs & don’t want to cycle between them all.

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