[plug] GIMP users to confirm behaviour

[Ryan]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 13:07, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1063861102.1064.64.camel at vaio>
> on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:58:22PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> > Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but if you select something
> > then click the 4 pointed cross tool (the sort of standard 'move' icon) 
> > which has a tooltip of 'Move layers & selections', then the arrow keys
> > will move the entire layer and holding alt will move the selection.
> 
> I don't actually want to move an entire layer as such, though as a
> work-around I could duplicate a layer and then delete the regions that I
> don't want to move. However, pressing arrow keys with the move tool
> (with or without a selection) causes the cursor to change from an arrow
> to a stop sign :(

Was just having more a play - I concur now.  I also found that the
Window Manager (GNOME2/metacity) were stealing a lot of my cursor key
related instructions to The GIMP when I had various combinations of
shift/alt/ctrl held down - maybe that might have something to do with it
too?

Ryan

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