(02-23-2018, 10:03 PM)gib65 Wrote:(02-23-2018, 05:58 PM)Blighty Wrote: I had this problem some time ago (maybe 2 years back). It was not a Gimp problem, but a Windows and/or Kaspersky problem. After a few months the problem went away without doing anything to Gimp.
Not that great a problem. Layers can be moved with the arrow keys. Layers can be deleted by selecting the layer and clicking on the trash can icon. The only thing that was difficult was creating layer groups.
Probably more like a Gimp/Windows relation problem. Gimp was built for Linux, wasn't it? I find this is often the case... when one software is built for a specific OS, it tends to be finicky when installed on another.
So how does one move layers with the arrow keys? Selecting the layer and hitting the arrow keys simply changes which layer is selected. I tried Ctrl, Alt, Shift, etc. but none of those work (Ctrl+Alt+Arrow flips the orientation of your display just FYI). There's tons of Google hits on how to move a layer with the arrows keys on the canvas but that's not exactly what I mean by "move layers".
See the Layer>Stack>... menu`to move layers in the stack. To move the layers around in the canvas, you can use the cursor keys, but you have to start the Move tool first (note that the cursor keys do a one-pixel move, so it can be slow on big images, using shift-cursor makes it a lot faster.)