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Steps to reproduce
Open a base and click an empty space in a row to highlight it. Press the shift key afterwards to scroll horizontally (or to highlight multiple notes).
Expected result
After scrolling or highlighting notes I should be able to click and open notes. The cursor should change to indicate a clickable field (a note title for example) when hovering over it.
Actual result
I am unable to open notes via left clicking them and the cursor stays in pointer form when hovering over a note title.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.5
Installer version: 1.12.5
Operating system: #19~24.04.2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 6 23:08:46 UTC 2 6.17.0-19-generic
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 3
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Additional information
Hi! I’m not able to reproduce the issue in a quick test though may have the steps wrong.
Here I’m holding shift to scroll horizontally, and then shift to select multiple notes. Left-clicking to open notes works expected after doing either.
Have you tried in the Sandbox vault to see if you see the same behavior there?
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.5
Installer version: 1.12.5
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jan 19 22:00:55 PST 2026; root:xnu-11417.140.69.708.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 24.6.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 0
Plugins enabled: 0
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Thanks for looking into it so quickly! I did try the sandbox, flatpak installer and appimage for my normal vault, with and without plugins and themes, but it stayed the same. It looks like the steps you took should reproduce it, but I’m not 100% sure. It definitely happens if you highlight a note by single left clicking it first, then pressing shift (even just a single tap without scrolling with the mouse at all) and then trying to open it or hover the cursor over the title.
I did however remember one more thing: I wanted to enable the common windows feature for middle mouse click scrolling in obsidian and I used the following launch command attribute (from ChatGPT):
”/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=obsidian.sh --file-forwarding md.obsidian.Obsidian --enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll @@u %U @@”
where the part “–enable-blink-features=MiddleClickAutoscroll“ got added. It did not really work that well, so I threw it out again. It is at least related to scrolling in some way, but I’m not sure how this would cause something like that, especially since the same thing also happens when opening obsidian via an appimage where no such setting was changed.
Previous check and .gif were on a mac, but just tried the same steps using windows 11 / obsidian 1.12.5 / installer 1.12.5: all seems fine.
Hopefully a linux user can have a try.
Yes, please if anyone could take a look at this, I’d be very thankful. This completely throws off some of my workflows and it just does not go away.
I also finally managed to figure out how to do screen recordings: https://youtu.be/gNTOTOmcdUE