Everything is purple(!)

[Rene_Poschl]

This might be a good read if you don’t know what the canvases are:

Pcb_new: What is a canvas? (default [legacy], open-gl [accelerated] and cairo [fallback]) Is there a difference?

Pcb_new and the footprint editor come in different flavors. These differ greatly in functionality and in their interface. (They are more like different versions of the same programs than different render engines.) The options have the following names <KiCad 4.0.x> | KiCad 5.x <default> | legacy <open gl> | modern (accelerated) <cairo> | modern (fallback) The legacy canvas The legacy canvas will be dropped in a future release. It is no longer developed. It is included because some feature…