Text randomly gets selected at the font edges?

[Snacko]

I rebuilt my pc about 2 months ago and reinstalled GIMP.

Sometimes when I am editing or adding text, the text gets selected around the edges of the font, like it was an image.  But it's just text..  I have not done anything to the text.  And sometimes it does this to other text on the screen that has nothing to do with the text I was working with.  Like 1/3rd of the text layers on the screen.  This happens randomly and I have checked in the Preferences and tools, but found no setting that would do this...

Any Help is appreciated.

   

[rich2005]

Wow, 3430 layers. Your screenshot does not show the layer dock but you get something like that when the text layer mode is Erase or Split (over a black layer)

[Snacko]

Thanks for the Reply.   This is one file with Cockpit legends for many aircraft in DCS, IL2, MSFS, etc...  Lot's of layers, but it works fine.  Loads into gimp in 6 seconds.

Split & Erase were not even in the Layer Mode.  But I noticed that the Layer Mode was set to Legacy.  And the Mode was Normal(l).  Could that cause this?


Hey, it's in Legacy mode now with Normal(l), and I just noticed that this happens when I press the caps Lock key.  Each time I press it the selection changes by 1-2 pixels.

This text was 'BRT', and I typed sss.  Then I backspaced and pressed cap lock(and it started selecting the text), and type SSS.  Then backspaced to remove then SSS, this is what I ended up with.

   

EDIT:
This was strange, but I think that I found the problem.

In Keyboard Shortcuts, I found a command 'Add to Selection' that had a key called 'VoidSymbol' assigned to it.  IDK what that is, but it didn't sound good, so I changed it to Disabled.  Did the same tests, and now cap locks does not select any text anymore.  Time will tell, but it seemed immediately fixed.