How to disable highlight of wires on Eeschema?

[leoheck]

How do I disable the highlight of wires on Eeschema?

If the tool is already selected, it works when clicking in the background.
However, if I use Esc to drop the Highlight tool, I cannot disable the selection anymore.

Maybe if this tool has a keyboard shortcut we would be able to toggle it using the same key.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor

Version: 6.0.5-a6ca702e91~116~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.11

Platform: Linux 5.15.0-33-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
	Date: May  3 2022 08:42:29
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.83.0
	ngspice: 36
	Compiler: GCC 11.2.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

[paulvdh]

@leoheck

If the tool is already selected, it works when clicking in the background.

This is by design.
The idea is that you can keep the highlight on while working on some other detail of the schematic or PCB.

Also, a simple search in the Hotkeys list:

Maybe a bit difficult to see on the screenshot, but backtick (= [Shift + Tilde]) works to cancel highlighting.

[leoheck]

It looks like a good decision. I like to have it highlighted. But it would be nice to have a way to disable the highlight or to select the highlight tool by using a pre-existing shortcut key. This tool does not have shortcuts defined.

[craftyjon]

@leoheck

This tool does not have shortcuts defined.

It does, though. You can either use the Clear Highlighting (~ key) or run the highlight hotkey in empty space on the schematic (`)

[mf_ibfeew]

This tool does not have shortcuts defined.

Depends on installation:

• Kicad preserves old hotkey-settings, so if you are updating it doesn’t overwrites your settings. So you can only tell if an actual new installation has this hotkey set (or not) if you do a real clean installation.
• v6.99 (nightly development) for instance has the ~ as standard defined for “clear highlight”

for info description of my usage:

• I try to minimize the number of hotkeys - it makes it easier to memorize them
• so from the 4 highlight-hotkeys (see picture from paul) I use only the “highlight net under cursor” hotkey
• to clear highlighting I press this hotkey if the cursor hovers aver empty canvas

[leoheck]

@craftyjon

It does, though. You can either use the Clear Highlighting (~ key) or run the highlight hotkey in empty space on the schematic (```)

It actually does, thanks.

Great, now the issue is then the tooltip that does not have this info

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