01-05-2026, 05:21 AM
This is probably a silly question but what is singular in single-window mode? I used to think it meant literally one window but you can have dockable dialogs as separate windows in both single-window mode and multi-window mode.
Hitherto I have used multi-window mode mainly for two reasons:
1. I put in long layer names to document what I did and often have many layers so having the layers dialog as a separate window allows me to easily adjust it's size.
2. I often like to see more than one image side by side, or a new view of an image along side the original.
This was all fine in gimp 2.10.
In gimp 3 I'm finding window management in multi-window mode OK when one image is open but pretty unusable when more than one is open.
So I'm thinking I could use single-window mode but with dockable dialogs as separate windows, e.g. the layer dialog on it's own and several others docked together also in a separate window. Point 1. would still be OK but not point 2. I'm guessing you can't see more than one image at a time in single-window mode, not even a new view, is that what the single refers to?
Hitherto I have used multi-window mode mainly for two reasons:
1. I put in long layer names to document what I did and often have many layers so having the layers dialog as a separate window allows me to easily adjust it's size.
2. I often like to see more than one image side by side, or a new view of an image along side the original.
This was all fine in gimp 2.10.
In gimp 3 I'm finding window management in multi-window mode OK when one image is open but pretty unusable when more than one is open.
So I'm thinking I could use single-window mode but with dockable dialogs as separate windows, e.g. the layer dialog on it's own and several others docked together also in a separate window. Point 1. would still be OK but not point 2. I'm guessing you can't see more than one image at a time in single-window mode, not even a new view, is that what the single refers to?