Moving text annotations in Xournal

Question

Is it possible to move text annotations in Xournal? If so how?

Seems to be a trivial task, but I don't see how to do it.

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to move text annotations in Xournal. Follow the following steps:

1. Click in the toolbar on the "Select Region" or "Select Rectangle" button.
2. Click on the annotation in the document.
3. Now you can drag the annotation to a different location.

Answer 2

In xournal++ 1.1.0 it's slightly changed, to "Select Object".

Click the dropdown circled below with a square

and choose "Select Object" so that it looks like a mouse cursor

Or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+O.

Answer 3

I succeed to move text like this:

After writing text in any location in the document:

• I went to the upper toolbar and choose the "Select rectangle" button (instead of the "Text" button). Shortcut: Ctrl + R.
• Now, in this state, I dragged the text to any other location in the page.

After that, you can go back again to "Text" mode and edit the text as before (shortcut Ctrl + T).

• I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and currently it installs Xournal 0.4.5 by default.