I have recently upgraded to Fedora 17 and now have Gimp 2.8 as a consequence.

As a user of Gnu/Linux I am used to using multiple workspaces, a separate workspace for each job in hand but have found that the behaviour of Gimp 2.8 is not to my liking. With Gimp set up in workspace 6 (say) the Gimp dialogs for layers, tools, tool options etc. appear in my other 5 workspaces cluttering them up. I have found no way to remove the "sticky state" of these little windows. I have no problem handling the sticky state with windows of any other application and I have had no problem with previous versions of Gimp.

Please help me find a way to remove the sticky state from these windows.

hi

it might be issue related to comunication between GIMP and Your window manager. Which one do You use? KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Fluxbox or something else?

Please give us some more info: 1) Which window manager do You use
2) Which display manager do You use (gdm/kdm/xdm or other)

3) Have You tried to use GIMP in *any* other window manager. If yes, whether the problem still exist in other Wm.

2012/11/17, nitram2001 :

Thank you Dominik and Sven,

To answer your questions: I use XFCE as my desktop manager and have done so for many years. I have had limited experience with KDE and the old Gnome. At present I have only GNOME(3) and XFCE on my machines.

Using XFCE I can change the sticky state of any window by clicking in the tiny circle at the far left of the titlebar or by typing f6. this works for any window, including the Gimp main window, but does not work on the Layers/Channels/Paths, Toolkit or tool options windows.

I changed desktop this evening to GNOME and was not able to even find a way to get multiple workspaces. Since (at present) I cannot get multiple workspaces using GNOME I cannot try "sticky state". I could go into the GNOME manuals to find out about multiple workspaces but I think that would be a waste of time and not solve my problem of the super-sticky windows.

This small exercise reinforced my impression that GNOME3 is built for iphone users not for people who want to really use their computers as computers. GNOME has really screwed up.

Anyway, that's how it stands. Since every other window, apart from those mentioned, works as ordered I am sure that it's a Gimp problem (maybe on purpose). I have tried the Gimp help but cannot find any reference to sticky windows or multiple workspaces. I just hope that someone can guide me to a solution. Gimp communicates well with my window manager in the case of the main window, just not with those other three windows.

Solved.

Thank you so much. I checked out the reference that you gave me and found that the hint for docks and toolbox was "Utility" I changed it to "Normal", restarted and all is well the windows behave as all others.

Thank you again . Thanks. Thanks.

Xfwm unfortunately handles utility windows differently from most other window managers. See the GIMP manual for a way to work around the problem:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-window-management

Setting both hints to "normal window" should work.

As far as I know the window management specification is vague on this, and many other, subjects. Which leads to programs and people disagreeing
on which window types should be used for which purposes.

Hi Matthew,

Thanks. I checked out GNOME3 again and: yes, there is a pop-up panel on the right that I had not seen at first. I'm not used to having a panel there. I'll stick with XFCE though, I love the magic right click that does so much and the old ways work better for me.

I just checked into gimpusers.com to solve my problem but find that there is much there to help me with using Gimp. I'll be looking in here more often. I find this forum to be very friendly and helpful.

That could possibly even happen because this: isn't necessarily obvious if you're used to the old way. Not that it's bad,
just a change. Especially because those desktops aren't expanded by default.
I find this shell extension helpful:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/503/always-zoom-workspaces/