Cannot select text in Rstudio desktop

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This morning when I started up Rstudio (after having used it for years) it showed only a black screen. This did not resolve upon restart so I uninstalled Rstudio then reinstalled.

With the reinstallation I see a somewhat normal screen, but am unable to select text in the scripting window. The cursor is there but it scans over the text.

I reinstalled Rstudio for Bionic twice, then tried instead for Xenial. All reproduced the same problem

Has someone else seen this problem? I can find no other documentation of someone who cannot highlight and copy text in the scripting window. This does not happen in the Console.

Thanks in advance

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

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Hi @tkarasov! Welcome!

To help others figure out what might be going wrong, can you confirm what version of RStudio you have installed?

Also, this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but have you tried any of the steps in the RStudio Desktop Troubleshooting Guide, such as resetting RStudio Desktop's state?

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Hi jcblum,
Problem solved! Resetting the Desktop state (removing the ~/.rstudio-desktop).
thanks for the help!
Talia

rstudio version: rstudio-1.2.1335-amd64

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