[plug] GIMP users to confirm behaviour

[John Clayton]

*shakes head and wonders at how all these smart people can be so bamboozled 
by such a simple little problem*

Open image in gimp
Copy the selection that needs to be positioned.
Paste selection into appropriate image
While the yellow ants are marching around the pasted selection and the 
pasted selection still has its own layer press m for move and then move the 
pasted selection as required with the arrow keys.
If finding the m key is too difficult then right clicking on the pasted 
selection and going to tools-->transform tools-->move will also alow one to 
use the arrow keys for fine manipulation of the pasted selection's position.

*shakes head again "I thought this was the smart group" hehehehehehe*

>In message <3F693E7E.8000600 at postnewspapers.com.au>
>on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:11:26PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > >Actually, I am more than happy to use my pointing device, but I still
> > >need to reliably constrain the motion to 90- or 45-degree axes. Holding
> > >down the shift key doesn't seem to invoke this behaviour.
> >
> > Wow... I can't believe GIMP doesn't have any kind of nudge. It's
> > probably there, but involves setting scroll lock then holding down the
> > END key while pressing the vi directional keys with your nose :-P
>
>But I could DO that! (I am actually going to try scroll lock and
>directional keys right now...nope, didn't work.)
>
> > GIMP 1.3 appears to nudge entire layers using the arrow keys,
>[...]
> > Aha... you can nudge cut/copied then pasted regions, as those are
> > temporary layers.
>
>Right. I would love a Debian binary package for i386 (yuck: GIMP AND
>i386 -- and I'm admitting to this in a public forum!).
>
> > So... try GIMP 1.3 and see if that helps.
>
>I have tried GIMP 1.3 on another platform (actually...fires up a
>copy...hmmm, can't seem to use the arrow keys to do anything useful
>there, either) but I actually find it deficient in some areas so I
>stopped using it. Actually, I also remember that plug-ins tended to make
>it crash but I couldn't get stack dumps from them because it wanted kept
>dropping into a debugger that wouldn't accept keyboard input.
>

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