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Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox

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Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox houghi 19 Feb 15:02
  Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox Michael Natterer 19 Feb 15:18
   Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox houghi 19 Feb 15:29
houghi
2009-02-19 15:02:01 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox

Hello,

I was pointed here from gimptalk to ask my question here. If this is not the correct place, please accept my appologies and point me in the right direction.

I have openSUSE 11.0 running GIMP 2.6. I also have two screens (Displays) that I use in traditional dual screen, so no Xinerama.

What I want to do is open two images and one toolbox. However I want to have one image on one display :0.0 and the other on :0.1

When I use --display and try it individually. When I first open one and then the next one, only one toolbox is open and both images are availble on the same display. I can then move one image to the other display.

I am looking for a way to do this from the commandline and as far as I can tell this is not possible. As far as I can tell the --display is accepted on the first instance, but not on the second.

Is there a way to do this? If not, will this be something that could be implemented in a newer version?

houghi

Michael Natterer
2009-02-19 15:18:26 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:02 +0100, houghi wrote:

Hello,

I was pointed here from gimptalk to ask my question here. If this is not the correct place, please accept my appologies and point me in the right direction.

I have openSUSE 11.0 running GIMP 2.6. I also have two screens (Displays) that I use in traditional dual screen, so no Xinerama.

So you are using two screens, not two displays (which would be two different
connections to two different X servers), right?

What I want to do is open two images and one toolbox. However I want to have one image on one display :0.0 and the other on :0.1

When I use --display and try it individually. When I first open one and then the next one, only one toolbox is open and both images are availble on the same display. I can then move one image to the other display.

I am looking for a way to do this from the commandline and as far as I can tell this is not possible. As far as I can tell the --display is accepted on the first instance, but not on the second.

Is there a way to do this? If not, will this be something that could be implemented in a newer version?

This is unfortunately not possible, but your request sounds reasonable to me. Can you file this as enhancement request in bugzilla please? IMO it would be nice to open an image from the command line on a specific
screen.

ciao,
--mitch

houghi
2009-02-19 15:29:13 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

Opening GIMP on different screens with one toolbox

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Michael Natterer wrote:

So you are using two screens, not two displays (which would be two different connections to two different X servers), right?

Indeed.

This is unfortunately not possible, but your request sounds reasonable to me. Can you file this as enhancement request in bugzilla please? IMO it would be nice to open an image from the command line on a specific screen.

I will do that. Note that opening one image is possible to decide what screen it goes on. Another thing that might be interesting is to open he toolbox in one screen and the image in the other.

houghi