peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (2001-06-07 at 0930.45 +1000): > Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? Maybe not. :[ > I run every application full screen and most of the applications open > with the screen the way I left it last time. Some applications let me > save a layout and set that as the one I will get every time I open the > application, no matter how messy it was when I left it. Gimp, under Linux at least, saves layout. And you can do tricks, like copying the sessionrc to a safe place, and "reinstall" it before each launch. > I would like a way to open Gimp so it is equivalent to a Windows full > screen application with each tool bar docked. That would mean having one > big window containing the image and the other windows as subsets of the > main window, placed down the left of a vertical image and across the > bottom of a horizontal image. That is MDI, Multiple Document Interface, IIRC, and a good way to force behaviour into users: try using a colour selector from app Foo to DnD a colour to app Bar, not easy if you have all in big windows (resize windows or "D to taskbar, wait, nD in app"). Monolithic concepts in a modular environment. > That way, when I am in GIMP, the whole screen is working the Gimp way, [...] > I would not be mixing the two on the same screen. Maybe what you need is one of those virtual desktop system. In X most people use it, many even say that a windowing system without them is not worth the time. There are some shareware, freeware and free software things, try http://www.litestep.com/ for a example. BTW, one of the funny X tricks: run apps inside Xnest, and you get MDI under X. ;] GSR
