Where are the preferences for mouse wheel scrolling ...

[Sheila]

I can't seem to find how to shut off Grow/shrink node selection: mouse wheel grow/shrink selection (spatial).
I can see how to change keyboard hotkeys but not the scrolling of the mouse wheel for node selection.

Is this possible? I use the wheel scrolling for other things but I'd rather not have it for node selecting.

I'm being driven quietly nuts by this. Thought I'd ask. Thanks.

[Moini]

No, this mouse action is currently not configurable - you'd need to compile your own Inkscape version to change it.

May I ask in what situations you encounter the problem? Maybe there are other ways.

[brynn]

Welcome to the forum!

As far as I know, you just need to make sure the mouse is not on top of a node when you scroll the wheel.  I make it a practice not to leave the mouse pointer on top of a node (or anything else, for that matter), in between steps of whatever I'm doing.  I make sure to leave the mouse pointer over free space.  That way, I don't accidentally cause problem if the mouse gets bumped or something.