[Gimp-docs] Gimp inquiry

[Sy Fine]

I’m learning Gimp 2.2 using WinXXP.  In the Gimp 2.2 manual, at http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html, it says, “After creating a … selection, … the default mouse pointer is the moving cross. Click-and-drag then allows you to move the selection and its contents, while the initial position remains empty.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
But after I create, say, a rectangle selection, my mouse pointer remains a square.  If there is some setting doing that can anyone tell me what it is, please?  
Even if I grab the move tool, the pointer changes to a cross but when I try to move the selection, the whole canvas moves, not the selection.  What am I missing?
Thank you, Seymour H. Fine, Ph.D. 
WEB: http://tinyurl.com/ysfkz syfine22 at juno.com 
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