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Table of Contents
There are many places in GIMP where you can find menus. The aim of this chapter is to explain all the commands that are accessible from the menus in the Toolbox and Image windows. All the context menus and the menu entries for the other dialogs are described elsewhere in the chapters that describe the dialogs themselves.
If you right-click on certain parts of the GIMP interface, a “context menu” opens, which leads to a variety of functions. Some places where you can access context menus are:
Clicking on an image window displays the Image menu. This is useful when you are working in full-screen mode, without a menubar.
Clicking on a layer in the Layers Dialog or on a channel in the Channels Dialog displays functions for the selected layer or channel.
Right-clicking on the image menubar has the same effect as left-clicking.
Right-clicking on the title bar displays functions which do not belong to GIMP, but to the window manager program on your computer.
There is an interesting property associated with some of the menus in
GIMP.
These are any of the menus from the Toolbox menubar and any of their
submenus, as well as the Image context menu you get by right-clicking on
the image window and any of its submenus. (You can tell that a menu item
leads to a submenu because there is an
icon next to it.) When you bring up any of these menus, there is a
dotted line at the top of it (tear-off line). By clicking on this
dotted line, you detach the menu under it and it becomes a separate window.
Detached submenus originating from the Toolbox are only visible when the Toolbox is active. Detached submenus originating from the Image window are actually independent. They are always visible, their functions always apply to the current image, and they persist when all of the images are closed. You can close a detached submenu by clicking on the dotted line again or closing the window from the window manager on your computer (often by clicking on an X icon in the upper right corner of the window).
