GIMP - open image in same gimp

[hsriat]

Every time I right click on an image to open it in GIMP, its opens in a new GIMP instead of opening a new window in the already opened one. If I open 5 images, it will open 5 separate GIMPs. This takes a lot of time as GIMP takes time to start (at least on my machine).

Earlier, it would open in single GIMP. I want the same settings back.
Any idea what happened, and what to do?

[Death Slaught]

Yay, someone else who uses GIMP! I've never encountered this problem, but I would uninstall my current version and download the latest one (what I have) and that should fix the problem.

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[hsriat]

I use GIMP?!!... I love GIMP!

And about the problem.. it started when I uninstalled my old version and installed a new one (2 months ago)

[Death Slaught]

Do you have GIMP 2.4 or another version?

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[hsriat]

ooh... so you have 2.4?...

I've 2.2.1... will install the latest now.

[Death Slaught]

I hope it fixes the problem ^_^

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[hsriat]

It isn't a problem I guess. Its just some setting change which I somehow made and now not able to find what it was. Because it wasn't the same with the earlier one.

[Death Slaught]

Have you tried going to your preferences and selecting the reset button?

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[hsriat]

Can't find a reset button... :(

[Death Slaught]

File - Preferences - Reset (left of the "ok" button).

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[hsriat]

Can't find that. May be it's not in the version I'm using. Will download the latest version now. Then will see what happens.

[Death Slaught]

0.o I thought you had already downloaded the latest version lol.

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[hsriat]

I did that 2 months ago.. :D

Now downloading that.

[DrBunchman]

If you want to open files in the same instance of GIMP you can drag and drop the file (or an image from the internet which is very handy) straight onto the GIMP pallette and it will open it up.

See if that works for you.

Dr B

(Also a lover of the GIMP!)

[hsriat]

If you want to open files in the same instance of GIMP you can drag and drop the file (or an image from the internet which is very handy) straight onto the GIMP pallette and it will open it up.

See if that works for you.

Dr B

(Also a lover of the GIMP!)

I know that, but I was in a habit of doing the right click and then open it. But can't get that in same GIMP instance now.

Even in 2.4 its the same.

2.4 in itself has many new effects. I like that.

Regards,
Harpreet

[Death Slaught]

So the problem still persist.... Maybe it's the settings of your computer. I think I may know the problem (although it is unlikely). Does your computer open every file in a new window?

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[hsriat]

So the problem still persist.... Maybe it's the settings of your computer. I think I may know the problem (although it is unlikely). Does your computer open every file in a new window?

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No... just with GIMP.

openOffice, TextPad, FF... everyone is fine.

[YarrOfDoom]

I should look into misc. more often, I could have helped you right away then. It's very simple: if you associate your imagefiletypes with GIMP, and you browse to the GIMP program files folder, you'll see several different executables (if you're using windows, that is, I don't know about the linux version). Two of these are gimp-<version number>.exe and gimp-win-remote.exe, you're probably trying to open with the first one, which (I think) is the executable for the main window, while the second one checks if GIMP is already running and opens in that instance, if GIMP is not running yet, it opens a new instance. I hope this solves your problem.

[hsriat]

I should look into misc. more often, I could have helped you right away then. It's very simple: if you associate your imagefiletypes with GIMP, and you browse to the GIMP program files folder, you'll see several different executables (if you're using windows, that is, I don't know about the linux version). Two of these are gimp-<version number>.exe and gimp-win-remote.exe, you're probably trying to open with the first one, which (I think) is the executable for the main window, while the second one checks if GIMP is already running and opens in that instance, if GIMP is not running yet, it opens a new instance. I hope this solves your problem.

Oh man you really should look into misc section!!

This was it...

Actually when I right click on an image file, gimp-win-remote.exe appears in the secondary list, while this gimp-2.4.exe is in the upper list, so I never tried that.

Thank you man!

regards