Thank you for the replies : )
Oddly, the middle mouse button is panning both in the schematic view and component layout view. Strange. What made matters worse: there seemed to be a thread where it was poopoo’ed. A few bad mouse clicks and a block of text is all it took for me to believe that there was no panning.
I am sorry for my mistake.
I was wrong.
I’m using the stock Windows scroll-wheel speed, and I do wish we could change the zoom increment. Did Kicad implement mouse acceleration on the wheel?
I made my tutorial board. I can grab wires to move them, but I cannot grab components to grag them for even a linear translation. There is no contextual menu option. Still looking…
I can grab a schematic item just fine, though.