You seem to be hitting bug 1484825 judging by the text handlers ("blue thing") being offset on your screenshot.
1. Touch one of the handlers with your finger. 2. Move it left or right to change the selection. 3. A menu should show up automatically. 1. Long-press a word to select it. 2. A menu should show up automatically. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-ui-toolkit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540108 Title: Blue dots for text marking/placing a cursor are too small Status in Ubuntu UX: New Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I mean the blue dots that are visible in the photo. Ok my hands are not the smallest but I saw already bigger ones. I can not place the cursor in the text where I want to as well as mark/highlight the text to cut or copy. On Android these dots are big raindrops. I have no problem. In Ubuntu it simply doesn't work at all without a touchpen. These dots are too tiny. -------------- I'm updating the bug with an additional information which is actually another problem which You can see in the photo in a comment #3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1540108/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp