Route track hotkey behaviour

Recently updated to KiCad 8 and am loving it, one thing however is that the routing hotkey (X) isn’t behaving the same as before.

In previous versions when pressing X it would start the routing and lay down a track, however in this new update I have to press X and THEN click to start routing. Might not seem that bad but adding an extra click every time I want to route is messing up my flow.

Have looked around in preferences but haven’t seen any related settings, just wondering if there anyone knows of a way to revert this behaviour back to how it was previously? Thanks!

This extra click can be enabled/disabled with Preferences–>Common–>Editing–>First hotkey selects tool.

Hey thanks for this info, must have missed that option. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to make any difference and was actually already disabled in my case, I still have to click to actually place a track

Ok just updated to the latest nightly update and this issue is fixed, the ‘First hotkey selects tool’ options behaves as intended.

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