Locked footprints are pink and cannot be selected

[mdsaund]

Recently upgraded to KiCad 7. Locked footprints are highlighted in pink.

How can I:

a) disable the distracting pink highlighting of locked items
b) make it so I can select locked items like normal

Thanks in advance for your help!

edit: found the #2 toggle under the Apperance manager selection filter? I don’t even know how I opened this menu, but OK. Now to hunt down #1…

[paulvdh]

Locking an element in layout

I there, when using the function of locking an element in layout I´ve realize that the object stays unselectable, and with a weird appearance. The propose of this type of function for example in a professional tool like Siemens EDA, is to help the user when he like do lock a trace to define a static path when routing multiple traces. This avoid some strange behavior of push and shoving traces to the others and they get their shapes completely arruined and lost in design (just a practical example…

[mdsaund]

This solves it. Thanks again, paulvdh – I think it’s you who answers just about all of my questions around here. I appreciate the help a lot.

[jmk]

You’ve found by double clicking the colored square, the color can be changed?

[mdsaund]

I have now. The Appearance pane has changed significantly and it’s taking some getting used to.

[MustardMan]

The ‘opacity’ slider (when selecting the colour) can be changed to make it less in-your-face, but it is not “sticky” (a bug - I’m on ubuntu 20, kicad v7.0). Haven’t bothered to find out exactly when it reverts back to full strength (too many other things to do), but no doubt someone will get around to fixing it at some stage, and it really is just an annoyance, not a show-stopper.