When I use the Free Select mode and try to add onto my selection, I end up quite often in a mode where the selection outline follows my cursor without my wanting to move anything. How can I disable this mode so that when I want to modify a free selection - bigger or smaller - I don't end up moving it instead?

Thanks!

Which version of krita and which operating system are you using?

Do you mean the Freehand Selection Tool?
When the selected region follows your cursor, do you see a double headed arrow as the cursor?

When using the Shift+A modifier or the Tool Options 'Action' = Add, I don't have any situation where the existing selection follows my cursor.

Thanks for your quick reply. I'm using Krita 4.30. So I just outlined an area and added to it, all using the Outline Selection Tool, and I just went back to extend my selection and the cursor changed to a double-headed arrow and started moving the selection around, but not changing the shape or size. Since it happens so often I'm constantly losing the spot where I wanted the selection to be, or at least until I do an Undo. I'm thinking this can't be the intended behavior, because it sort of defeats the purpose of doing a careful, hand-drawn selection. And, most importantly, it only happens when I hover over the selection outline, but that is pretty often.

Gary

That selection tool has been renamed as 'Freehand Selection Tool' recently. The rationale being that all selection tools are some kind of outline selection.
It would be a very good idea to upgrade to version 4.4.2 as soon as you can anyway, for the bug fixes.

The double headed arrow appears when you hover the cursor over the selection outline and will stay as that and move the selection if you left-click drag or stylus touch drag in that area, while it's a double headed arrow. Are you sure you're not doing that?

You are correct,, that is what I'm doing, hovering over the selection outline, when the double-headed arrow appears. But I don't mean to do that - I NEVER want to move a selection, since it's a careful outline of an existing image, why would I want to move it out of sync with the artwork I'm selecting? But I'm gathering that I can't disable this mystery feature - I just have to be careful when my cursor sits over the selection outline to not let it start moving my selection around. I would propose that this is not a useful feature - what purpose does it serve? If there is a workaround I would be happy to use it. And I will upgrade, as you suggest, but since this issue is not a bug, i don't imagine it will be addressed in the upgrade.

It's not just about hovering over the selection boundary, it's about hovering over it and then touching down with the stylus (or left-click with mouse). That is interpreted as a desire to move the selection, which is what the double headed arrow tells you: "You may now move the selection."
If you want to add to the selection then hover over some part of the intended additional selection outine that is not immediately adjecent to the existing selection.
If you zoom in on the existing selection then that will make it easier because the 'closeness' to the outline and cursor activation is determined by the on-screen distance.

Got it. I'm so absent-minded I'll have to work on avoiding the Move gesture. But I will also post a suggestion elsewhere on this website to have an On/Off toggle for this move feature, as I'm not sure that I would ever have a situation where I would want to move the whole selection, as it only makes sense in the one spot where it is, and it's easy to forget and start it migrating without meaning to.

Thanks for your quick input!

Gary