On the off chance...

[sara]

I've managed to somehow undock the tool options from the lower half of the toolbar window. I can dock other dialogs there, but I can't get the rassle-frassling tool options dialog to stick back on there (and no, I have no idea how I removed it in the first place -- it was one of those things where my hand slipped and something happened and I went aw crap.)

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 2.6.11 twice this afternoon, to no avail.

Thoughts, anyone?

Comments

[ratcreature]

You could try deleting the hidden folder with your personal gimp settings in your home directory (or renaming it), i.e. the .gimp-2.6 folder. And then restart. I don't think this setting folder is necessarily deleted with a reinstall.

[sara]

Oh, that's a good thought.

Of course, it's the Windows box at work, so I'm going to have to have a rummage for it, but I'll give that a go in the morning. Thanks!

[sara]

Hah, finally had time to sit down and sort it: there's not one but two hidden folders, at least on XP boxes. The GIMP is sneaky. But I have, at long last, triumphed.

[lyktemenn]

You've probably got this fixed already but I'm gonna throw this in here seeing it was one of my main problems starting out. I don't have gimp open right now so the name's might be slightly different than what I remember them to be, just go for the closest:D

You've accidentally dragged and dropped the dock to it's own window, the quick fix should've been to just drag and drop it back onto where you wanted it (unless there's a bug), or close down the dock floating on it's own and add it again through a menu. If it really doesnt want to behave you can go to edit-preferences- window management- reset to default which will give you the default gimp layout, but remove any customization you might've done. Here you can also uncheck the save windows position on exit so you get whatever layout you've saved instead of the last one you had before closing.

To avoid accidentally dragdropping docks again go to the tab menu, that little triangle in the top right corner, and check the lock dock to tab... you gotta do this to all docks individually to have 'em all locked. Then go back to window management and save windows position to make it stick... unless you're still saving at exit that is;)

[sara]

Yeah, I've tried both re-dropping it and resetting to default; at this point, I think it's a bug.

[lyktemenn]

Ugh, bugs are so annoying. I hope ratcreature's suggestion will do the trick:)

[sara]

Well, if it weren't a bug, I don't think I'd be able to drop other dialogs there, but not the tools one.

[lyktemenn]

Yup, I agree. I just dropped by the gimp site and apparently they've released 2.6.12, maybe it would be worth upgrading?