How to let Gimp remember canvas size and "Fill with"?

[pstein]

@sallyanne:

Quote:If you always want your canvas to be a certain size and fill, cant you set this in preferences?
Edit - preferences.
Default image
set your size (Image size) in there and also the default colour (Fill with) - (Background colour, white, transparent or pattern)

This does NOT work for "Canvas Size". It applies only to "New" (image)

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@Ofnuts:

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Quote:wo solutions:

1. You define an image template, and then in Image > Canvas size you can select a template to apply its size. But this only applies the size, filling and such uses the dialog options.
   
2. Instead of Image > Canvas size you use the Crop tool, and check the Allow growing, specify a fixed size, and save this as tools presets if you want to reuse it later. Here again, you won't get an auto-fill.
   

The template definition seems to work.
However I always have to manually select my Template from drop down in "Canvas size" dialog.
Is there a way to automatically select my (previous) template in the drop-down?

I don't know what you mean with "Crop" tool.
When I select "Image--->Crop to content" then there is no checkbox "Allow growing".
In addition the wording "crop"  for enlarging is highly counter-intuitive