On 04/10/2009 05:14 PM, Brian Weese wrote:

I have the latest build of GIMP 2.6.6 ad running Windows XP.
The Toolbox dialog and any dockable dialogs are ALWAYS in front of the file I am working on. I usually have the layers and brush dialogs open while I'm working on a file. I could increase the screen resolution but it makes the text so tiny... I have been able to work around it for now, but it is really annoying.

Is this happening to anybody else? I'm not a programmer but this seems to be only something that can be fixed by adjusting the application code...maybe by the next release 2.6.7 hopefully? Unless of course this is only happening to me...

Thanks, D. Brian Weese

I am using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. A lot of what we do starts with acquiring a scan using Xsane from inside Gimp (Create... Xsane...) [I guess many people would not have Xsane installed].

When the scanned image comes in, as the above poster says, it is behind, underneath, etc. I have to go fishing for it. It is mildly annoying the first hundred times. By the 20,000th time (a realistic figure for us) I think it will be _really_ annoying.

Jay Smith

Brian Weese wrote:

I have the latest build of GIMP 2.6.6 ad running Windows XP.
The Toolbox dialog and any dockable dialogs are ALWAYS in front of the file I am working on. I usually have the layers and brush dialogs open while I'm working on a file. I could increase the screen resolution but it makes the text so tiny... I have been able to work around it for now, but it is really annoying.

Hi

You can change the dock window hints in Edit -> Preferences -> Window Managment to Normal window if you don't want them as utility windows.

Note that you can toggle visibility of docks with the Tab key.

- Martin

gimp-user-bounces@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote:

Brian Weese wrote:

I have the latest build of GIMP 2.6.6 ad running Windows XP.

The Toolbox dialog and any dockable dialogs are ALWAYS in front of the file I am working on. I usually have the layers and brush dialogs open while I'm working on a file. I could increase the screen resolution but it makes the text so tiny... I have been able to work around it for now, but it is really annoying.

Hi

You can change the dock window hints in Edit -> Preferences -> Window Managment to Normal window if you don't want them as utility windows.

Note that you can toggle visibility of docks with the Tab key.

The utility feature seems to be broken in windows. I tried it for a little while but had to switch it off. I forget exactly why. I think some canvas windows would always be hidden if you had more than one file/view open in utility mode. I'd be more specific but I really can't remember.

David Marrs

Btw, (off topic) recently something changed on both gimp user and developer so that all emails appear to come from the mail bot rather than the original sender Thus, I never know who's talking in an email unless they sign themselves. I was fiddling around with my settings at the time but I'm pretty sure I set everything back to how it was. I wondered if someone made a change in the admin settings in an attempt to fix the annoying reply-to issue, cos that seems to work ok now.

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