Re: [Gimp-user] Is it possible to run GIMP 2.8.10 and GIMP 2.10.20 simultaneously?
On 15/08/2020 01:39, Techno wrote: I'm on Windows 10 and have been running GIMP 2.8.10 for some time, but I'd like to try GIMP 2.10.20. I'm not really a graphics person. I have a book titled "The Book of GIMP" that helps me a lot. It covers up to the version I'm using, but it won't cover anything new in GIMP 2.10.20. I don't want to clobber the older version because I will be lost without the advice from that book. If I can't install it so that I can run both versions simultaneously could the newer version be installed and then have it so that I can use one or the other version, but not both at once? Thanks for any advice on this. Yes, you can, but... if you have 2.8 and install 2.10, the 2.8 is removed and the 2.8 profile is transformed into a 2.10 one. So have bother versions, a technique is to 1. Make a backup of your Gimp 2.8 profile 2. Get hold of both Gimp 2.8 and 2.10 installers (you can also possibly move your 2.8 installation where the 2.10 installer won't find it) 3. Install Gimp 2.10 4. Reinstall Gimp 2.8 (or restore the previous installation) 5. Reinstate your Gimp 2.8 profile. Note that when you call Gimp, the first thing the executable does is look for an already running instance and pass it the file you want to open. So if you can have the two versions on the same system and start one or the other when none is running, when there is an instance running the executables of both versions will always end up calling the running instance. You can run two separate instances by calling Gimp with the "-n" parameter. Recommendation: create directories in your user space for your add-ons, and use Preferences>Folders to add them to the configuration of each version of Gimp. That way you can share the add-ons between both versions. A completely different way is to use a "portable" build for at least one of the versions. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Is it possible to run GIMP 2.8.10 and GIMP 2.10.20 simultaneously?
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 2:39 AM Techno wrote: > > I'm on Windows 10 and have been running GIMP 2.8.10 for some time, but > I'd like to try GIMP 2.10.20. > > I'm not really a graphics person. I have a book titled "The Book of > GIMP" that helps me a lot. It covers up to the version I'm using, but it > won't cover anything new in GIMP 2.10.20. I don't want to clobber the > older version because I will be lost without the advice from that book. > > If I can't install it so that I can run both versions simultaneously > could the newer version be installed and then have it so that I can use > one or the other version, but not both at once? > > Thanks for any advice on this. I don't have Windows close at hand but I'm fairly certain that you should be able to open the properties dialog for the GIMP launcher in the Windows menu or the quickstart panel (try right clicking on 'GIMP 2.10.20' in the menu?). That properties dialog displays the full path to the executable file. You should append " -n" (space and -n) to that full path right after ".exe". Save and close. Now every time you start GIMP from the menu or the quickstart panel (depending on where you edited that launcher). Alex ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] click and drag issue
On 15/08/2020 01:06, Stella Owen via gimp-user-list wrote: Thank you so much. I had given up on GIMP and was at my wits end. This explains everything. I will give GIMP another try. Also, Gimp uses the mouse to its full extent, so mouse problems that aren't too visible in other apps (browser, file explore, word processor) are much more visible in Gimp. I have seen many "Gimp bugs" be fixed by getting a new mouse (or sometimes by merely putting fresh batteries in the mouse). ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
