Renaming clip does not work

Audacity Help Forum GNU/Linux
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I have a bizarre problem: renaming clips work in some files but doesn’t in others. Even when I select a clip and choose from the menu Rename clip… it doesn’t work. But in other cases pressing Ctrl+F2 works perfectly. I wonder if anyone else encountered this problem. I’ve got Audacity 3.2.0 installed on Ubuntu 22.10.

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You could try Audacity 3.2.3. It’s available here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/linux/

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This is a know and logged, but still open and unfixed, issue

Can’t rename clips #3704
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3704

Peter.

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Well remembered.

That thread also has a workaround from David Bailes: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3704#issuecomment-1346194050

In the Track behaviors section of preferences, set “use dialog for the name of a new label”.

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Thanks a lot! I thought there was a walkaround I used before. I have reinstalled Ubuntu recently and forgot about this option.