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I'm running Gimp 2.10.30 on Windows 10 Home.

I haven't used GIMP very much the last couple of years but used to use it fairly regularly. I'm frustrated to find that I've forgotten something very basic: how do I get the full toolbox that used to come up when I created or edited an image?

If I go to Windows/Toolbox (or simply do a CTRL-B), I get a subset of the full set of tools but I don't get *all* of the tools the way I used to. If I hover over one of the tools in this partial toolbox, it will typically say that it is one of the members of a given family, e.g MyPaintBrushTool will indicate that it is a part of a group with the Pencil tool, the Paintbrush tool etc. but if I try to click on one of the other group members, like Pencil tool, the hover menu just disappears and I don't get the Pencil tool to come up.

Is there some way to get GIMP to display all of the tools in the toolbox, not just one member in each group, or, failing that, to select OTHER members of the group once I've clicked on another member in the same group in the (partial) tool bar?

Just to be clear, when I refer to the "full" toolbox, I'm referring to the one that you see in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FOkx4I657A

See Edit > Preferences > Toolbox > Appearance > Use tool groups and the Menu mode setting right below it.

You can also reconfigure the toolbox groups in the Tools Configuration widget below this: make different groups, keep some tools that you use often as non-grouped, etc...

(10-11-2022, 11:13 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: [ -> ]See Edit > Preferences > Toolbox > Appearance > Use tool groups and the Menu mode setting right below it.

You can also reconfigure the toolbox groups in the Tools Configuration widget below this: make different groups, keep some tools that you use often as non-grouped, etc...

Changing the setting in Menu Mode from "show on hover in single column" to "show on click" finally made it possible to click on members of the group that weren't in the partial toolbox so that was a big step forward. I was finally able to choose the Paintbrush or Pencil tools. I also found that if I unchecked "Use tool groups", I was able to see the full set of tools in the toolbox without having to click or hover on anything else, which was what I had been wanting. However, now that I now how to get to the tools that aren't in the toolbox directly, I can live with having "Use tool groups" checked to minimize the size of the toolbox. (If I uncheck "Use tool box", I can change the width of the toolbox but apparently not the height, which I find offputting.)

I was also going to ask how to change the line width and pattern but found those when I checked the "Show active brush, pattern and gradient" option.

Thanks very much for helping me find those things and getting GIMP working in a satisfactory way! It was basically unusable the way it was.