On 11/12/12 15:43, Briyanna wrote:

I accidentally pulled my Tool Options tab from my Toolbox. No matter how I drag it back to where it says "You can drop dockable dialogs here" it does not return to where it came from. It will drag itself to random places all over my display, but it refuses to dock back to the Toolbox.

I've seen tutorials and help texts and videos show that there should be a blue outline when it's in place, or it turns into a hand in some versions, but that doesn't happen for me - the top left corner remains a black "arrow" (corner), and it will drag maybe halfway to where I tell it to if I am trying to move it across the screen, and drop where it feels like dropping.

Does anyone have any idea how to put the Tool Options tab BACK on the Toolbox where it belongs?

Thanks!

Using GIMP v 2.8.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium

I'm still running 2.6 but I think it's the same I think you're dragging by the normal window manager header, not the gimp dialog header, which is the bar just below it where the tool options menu button is along with the tool name. Press and hold in the area to the left of the tool options menu button (e.g. if it's showing the paintbrush tool, the tool options menu button is the arrow to the right of where it says "Paintbrush" at the top; press on the tool name or the blank area to the left of the left arrow button)

BTW, once it's back where it belongs, you can bring up the tool options menu and select "lock to tab to dock" which should prevent dragging it out in the future.

Gary

On 11/12/12 16:05, Briyanna wrote:

On 11/12/12 15:43, Briyanna wrote: I'm still running 2.6 but I think it's the same I think you're dragging by the normal window manager header, not the gimp dialog header, which is the bar just below it where the tool options menu button is along with the tool name. Press and hold in the area to the left of the tool options menu button (e.g. if it's showing the paintbrush tool, the tool options menu button is the arrow to the right of where it says "Paintbrush" at the top; press on the tool name or the blank area to the left of the left arrow button)

BTW, once it's back where it belongs, you can bring up the tool options menu and select "lock to tab to dock"
which should prevent dragging it out in the future.

I am dragging the icon/text that says "Tool Options", not the window itself.

That's your problem.
Below the window bar that says "Tool Options", there is another bar-like area that has a left-facing arrow button over on the right side.
Drag from the empty space somewhere to the left of the button.

Gary

I see nothing like that here - below the "Toll Options" tab with its icon, it
goes directly into the name of the tool, and then the actual options. The left
facing arrow, located directly to the right of the the tab I have been dragging
only activates a menu, and cannot be dragged.

However, after rebooting my computer, dragging the tab that says "Tool Options"
with the icon (the thing I've been dragging all this time, as the tutorials have
indicated), properly worked; the space highlighted blue, and the tab docked. I
used the left-facing arrow menu to lock the tab to the dock, so hopefully that
will work, considering that before I moved the tab out, it had been locked.

It appears to be some kind of bug, which I will report - for others having this
issue, suggest a computer reboot, it seems to fix whatever was preventing it
from docking to begin with.

-- Briyanna

Did you try switching to single window mode and then back to docked window mode? This helps me a lot when I missconfigure some window since it restores almost everything. This solution does not require a reboot but is a 2.8 only solution.

Alex