In version 0.91

I see that the space bar now pans without the mouse being down. A bit annoying for me, so is there a way to customize/turn this off?
I am using a Wacom tablet and it becomes difficult to zoom in when this auto pan is on.

Thanks!

Hhmm......

I don't know which preference of mine is causing this, but I'm not seeing this new panning behavior. As soon as I press the Space bar, I can no longer move my mouse (cursor)! Maybe it's something in Windows, because I have the same behavior outside of Inkscape. So like even in my browser, typing this reply -- as soon as I press the Space bar, the mouse is frozen! Or maybe it's even a mouse setting.....somehow??

I also don't use, or know much about using a tablet. How do you normally zoom with the Wacom, and how does the new panning behavior affect it?

When using the SELECTOR, I normally zoom in and out by using CONTROL+SPACE and CONTROL+SHIFT+SPACE which is the way Illustrator does it.
So now with the auto-pan when SPACE is pressed, if I move my mouse in the slightest, zooming is difficult since the auto-panning (panning when mouse is NOT down) then disables the zoom in/out.

In my mind the panning should not disable the CONTROL+SPACE zooming functions.

Do you have those as custom key shortcuts? Because the Key and Mouse Ref shows zooming with keys like so: https://inkscape.org/en/doc/keys091.html