RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Posted Jan 14, 2010 11:39 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor by drag
Parent article: RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

<blockquote>Multi windowed mode with Gimp the 'small windows' should follow the main window
up and down in the windows hierarchy. Either your experiences are not with recent Gimp versions
or your window manager sucks and you should use a different one. </blockquote>

God, I'm so sick of hearing this from the Gimp developers. In order to move a selection you're
supposed to alt-drag it. But alt-drag is taken by the GNOME window manager for moving windows.
Neither the GIMP nor metacity developers are willing to budge over this problem. The result is that
the GIMP is not usable in GNOME. No, I am not switching to twm just so I can edit some damn
photos!

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RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Posted Jan 14, 2010 14:34 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

Uh?

I can move selections just fine by clicking in the middle of it and
dragging. Maybe I am confused or they fixed this. This is on Gimp 2.6.8

RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Posted Jan 14, 2010 15:17 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (1 responses)

I am referring to moving the selection and its contents together. Sorry for being unclear.

RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Posted Jan 14, 2010 16:21 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

That's ok.

I was still confused. I was creating a selection using the rectangular
select tool and that was creating a selection with handles that I was
dragging.

If you create a selection with the magic lasso or from a path then those
handles are not created and there is nothing to grab onto.

But ctrl-alt-drag seems to work.

RawTherapee: the newest open source raw photo editor

Posted Jan 14, 2010 19:49 UTC (Thu) by anton.molyboha (guest, #62820) [Link]

In my version of Gnome (2.22.3) you can also change the Alt-drag combination to "Windows logo"-drag in System->Preferences->Windows . Then the Alt-drag is available for applications like GIMP.