Allow multiple clicks without activating rotation

I’m trying to remove the background on an element. I click the element, go to the colour replacer and click on the icon, then when I go again to click on the element to indicate the colour I want removed, it turns into pink dots and the colour does not change. If I click again, the pink dots go away, but so does the connection to the colour replacer function, so I can’t get rid of the background.

I like that the rotation dots show up, but could they maybe show up with a quick double-click instead of every second time you click an element? For resizing or repositioning an element, it’s really annoying and takes FOREVER to lay things out the way you want them when every second click is completely wasted. My mouse hand is getting really tired, from having to make at least double or more the number of clicks that should be necessary to move an element around or get rid of its background.

There is no need to select the object.

  • Just click in the pipette (Screenshot from 2023-12-26 21-46-13) but be sure that it gets the dark background (Screenshot from 2023-12-26 21-45-40), the mouse pointer will turn into a hand with a pointing finger.
  • Click the object on the color that you want to replace
  • Click on the Replace button

Perhaps that’s my error; clicking the object first. Thanks for that. I’ll give it a try.

As an aside, my icon doesn’t look like the one you pictured here. It’s just the same palette, only smaller. Does that mean I have an old version? I thought it was up to date, but perhaps not. Maybe some of the other issues I’m having are also due to an old version. I’ll have to check that out as well.

Thanks again.

You can choose your icon theme in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View

My version doesn’t have that option, but it’s ok. I can certainly live with the current icon.

Thanks for taking the time to suggest it.

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