Howto: Run Gimp in one window
September 5, 2006 at 7:30 pm | Posted in tips and tricks, xubuntu | 35 Comments1) Go to the terminal (Xfce menu > System > Terminal), and install the needed programs:
sudo apt-get install xnest xfwm4 gimp
2) Run this command to try it out:
Xnest :1 -ac -name GIMP -geometry 1024x690 & xfwm4 --display :1 & gimp --display :1
Cool, huh? Here’s how to make it a shortcut:
1) Make a file called /usr/bin/gimp1window:
sudo touch /usr/bin/gimp1window
sudo mousepad /usr/bin/gimp1window
2) Paste the following into it:
#!/bin/sh
Xnest :1 -ac -name GIMP -geometry 1024x690 & xfwm4 --display :1 & gimp --display :1
3) Run sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gimp1window, and change your shortcuts from gimp to gimp1window.
Have fun!
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Comment by kowal— September 5, 2006 #
nice trick. Thanks!
Comment by wallakoala— September 7, 2006 #
oh wow this is really cool, i love the way it integrates what i’d considered GIMPs messy UI
however, two things, as my display is set to 1280×1024, i changed the line below to reflect this:
Xnest :1 -ac -name GIMP -geometry 1268&1024 xfwm4 –display :1 & gimp –display :1
also, the background of the X window which handles ‘gimp1window’ is very blurry, as if it had static on it. any idea why this might happen and a fix? it also happened at the stated 1280×1024
Comment by nickipee— September 12, 2006 #
Are you referring to the black & white background? I’m not sure; maybe messing with xsetbg would help.
Comment by xubuntu— September 13, 2006 #
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Pingback by Savadeep Speaks! » Running Gimp in but one window!— September 13, 2006 #
Great tip! I did this successfully but how do you change the shortcuts from applications-graphics-gimp to gimp1window. I can only seem to get the gimp1window shortcut under applications and it doesn’t seem to let me change the shortcuts under graphics……
Comment by Wing— September 14, 2006 #
What you could do is:
sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/gimp1window –rename /usr/bin/gimp
Comment by xubuntu— September 16, 2006 #
That didn’t work for me but I managed to get it on my graphics menu by installing Alarcarte. Then going to Applications – Accessories – Alacarte Menu Editor. Thanks for the help anyway and the tips on this site are excellent.
Comment by Wing— September 20, 2006 #
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Pingback by HOWTO: GIMP w jednym oknie at Hadret’s.Blog— December 15, 2006 #
I dont get it
How do you do that?
Comment by poo— December 20, 2006 #
Where is Xfce menu > System > Terminal?
Comment by poo— December 20, 2006 #
sudo dpkg-divert –divert /usr/bin/gimp1window –rename /usr/bin/gimp
this method does’t word…
when I enter the above code it says below…………..
dpkg-divert: –add needs a single argument
Usage: dpkg-divert [ …]
Commands:
[–add] add a diversion.
–remove remove the diversion.
–list [] show file diversions.
–truename return the diverted file.
Options:
–package name of the package whose copy of will not
be diverted.
–local all packages’ versions are diverted.
–divert the name used by other packages’ versions.
–rename actually move the file aside (or back).
–admindir set the directory with the diversions file.
–test don’t do anything, just demonstrate.
–quiet quiet operation, minimal output.
–help show this help message.
–version show the version.
When adding, default is –local and –divert .distrib.
When removing, –package or –local and –divert must match if specified.
Package preinst/postrm scripts should always specify –package and –divert.
Comment by combo— January 14, 2007 #
A Screenshot please!! :p
Comment by Ju4nch0— March 7, 2007 #
Excellent tip! I’ve tried doing it and it worked fine until the test part. But when I tried changing the shortcuts to gimp1window it didn’t work and I get this error message:
I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks! 🙂
Comment by Jaypee— April 18, 2007 #
Solution for the background issue, using icewm-lite.
First, create file in $HOME/.icewm/prefoverride, and put this:
DesktopBackgroundColor=”#dddddd”
where dddddd is your color. To set an image… read the documentation 😉
Next, create an script where you want (mine’s in ~/.icewm/bgset.sh) with this:
#!/bin/bash
icewmbg-lite &
sleep 5;
exit;
And chmod +x the file
Next, modify the gimp1window script to open a gnome-terminal that executes bgset.sh:
Xnest :1 -ac -name GIMP -geometry 1274×710 & gnome-terminal –geometry 0x0 –hide-menubar –display :1 -e “$HOME/.icewm/bgset.sh” & icewm-lite –display :1 & gimp –display :1
It’s not a very “fancy” way, but I tried to autorun icewmbg with no results 😦
Hope this helps 😉
Regards.
David
Comment by cYbErDaRk— April 28, 2007 #
That is SO COOL! Thank you, I can finally Love the gimp unreservedly!
Comment by Amos Wright— May 31, 2007 #
To get rid of the ugly background, you can start xfdesktop and (which comes extremly handy when having several windows open) the starter.
sudo apt-get install xfdesktop4 xfce4-panel
the command then goes like:
Xnest :1 -ac -geometry 1270×745 & xfwm4 –display :1 & gimp –display :1 & xfdesktop –display :1 & xfce4-panel –display :1
1270×745 is btw optimal for a 1280×800 screen!
Comment by xtin— June 3, 2007 #
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Pingback by Spiders on the Web » Blog Archive » Gimp en una sola ventana— June 20, 2007 #
ive got a few other options, to make the background of the window white, and to cause it to adopt your gnome theme, heres my command
Xnest :1 -ac -wr -name GIMP -geometry 1440×852 & metacity –display :1 & gimp –display :1 & gnome-settings-daemon –display :1
i have widescreen monitor so you may want to change 1440×852
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Pingback by links for 2007-08-03 « membo— August 3, 2007 #
This doesn’t work well for me – the tool icons and menu are invisible. The tool icons become visible if I wave my mouse over them.
Also when I minimize the panels they disappear completely.
Comment by acl123— October 24, 2007 #
regarding the “blurry background”, you can start Xnest with the -br option to use a black background instead of the default stippled black and white background.
Comment by pix— November 5, 2007 #
I’m running FC6 and don’t have apt-get. But I do have yum. I managed to get xfwm4 and gimp installed by doing
# yum install xnest xfwm4 gimpFor some reason that didn’t install xnest, though. I used the ‘add/remove software’ tool and did a search for xnest. Among the results it returned was ‘xorg-x11-server-xnest-1.1.1-47.10.fc6.i386’. Once I installed that I was, largely, able to follow the rest of these instructions.
I was briefly tripped up by conflicting diplays (if you haven’t figured it out by now, I am a linux noob). When I tried to run the command in step 2 I got the error:
Fatal server error:Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
When I changed all the ‘:1’ references to ‘:2’ it worked fine. Thanks for the great tip.
Comment by sing1ejack— November 30, 2007 #
Ejecutar Gimp en una sola ventana
Aunque este tema no es muy nuevo, me ha venido al pelo para no tener que andar con 4 ventanitas sueltas en escritorio cada vez que uso Gimp. El resultado es algo
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Ejecutar Gimp en una sola ventana
Aunque este tema no es muy nuevo, me ha venido al pelo para no tener que andar con 4 ventanitas sueltas en escritorio cada vez que uso Gimp. El resultado es algo como esto:
No es muy atractivo, pero sí muy útil. Bueno, los pasos a seguir:
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in the program when I put the main window, layers, colors, etc on the tray with the small button in the layers top-right corner, I couldn’t get them back at all, and after the next start it didn’t show up either. so now, when I open it with the command, just the black&white background is there, nothing else.
what can I do? pls mail me. thanks
Comment by Thomas— October 14, 2008 #
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Hmmm I’m debating whether to try this out. I’m interested in what the modified layout looks like. Any screenshots?
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