Toolbar missing information

[llloyd4]

https://gyazo.com/74f38814aeafa614bed2211866334ef3

My toolbar has gotten messed up somewhere, it doesn't list the color / font name / etc when I click on the text tool. My skill level is pretty beginner, I can do simple things like this but when it breaks, yeah... >.< Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks. Oh! Almost forgot, this is Windows 10 x64 ver: 21h1 and Gimp 2.10.24 Rev 3.

[rich2005]

Your screenshot does not show much, except as a self confessed beginner your Gimp setup lends itself to disasters.

Edit: Oh you edited your post and I did not see the shortened version. Use Edit -> Preferences -> Window Management Click on Reset Saved Windows positions to Default. Restart Gimp.

---- for the missing font issue =----

A little ofnuts utility text-info-0.1.py (dated 2014-08-26) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-too...s/scripts/

Download that, put it in C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\plug-ins

It registers right at the bottom of the (right-click) layers context menu. You can also get it using the Gimp search (/ key)

Open the .xcf and before anything else use the plugin This a 50 second example: https://i.imgur.com/ZWYg0ql.mp4

Note in this one, the font is cyberpunk but was originally ubuntu. Changed using the on canvas tool rather than the tool options. Bad practice, something to be aware of.

Edit: A quick font search and it looks like this font is a match. https://i.imgur.com/GumpnJz.jpg Golf https://www.ffonts.net/Golf.font

[PixLab]

On top Menu > Windows > Dockable dialogs > Tool options (<-click on it)
Then when you will click on the Text tool, your font names, type, colors and so will be in that "Tool Options"

[rich2005]

(08-25-2021, 02:29 PM)PixLab Wrote: On top Menu > Windows > Dockable dialogs > Tool options (<-click on it)
Then when you will click on the Text tool, your font names, type, colors and so will be in that "Tool Options"

One thing is the OP is using Gimp in multi-window mode. Not in itself a problem when you are used to it. It can be very productive. At one time it was the only display (up to Gimp 2.8)  Adding the Tools options is going to be yet another floating dock.

The question is (was) the missing font. which shows as 'Standard' (Windows) or  `Standard Symbols' (linux)  https://i.imgur.com/zQzgit0.jpg

[PixLab]

(08-25-2021, 03:06 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

(08-25-2021, 02:29 PM)PixLab Wrote: On top Menu > Windows > Dockable dialogs > Tool options (<-click on it)
Then when you will click on the Text tool, your font names, type, colors and so will be in that "Tool Options"

One thing is the OP is using Gimp in multi-window mode. Not in itself a problem when you are used to it. It can be very productive. At one time it was the only display (up to Gimp 2.8)  Adding the Tools options is going to be yet another floating dock.

The question is (was) the missing font. which shows as 'Standard' (Windows) or  `Standard Symbols' (linux)  https://i.imgur.com/zQzgit0.jpg

The OP can attach the floating dock with another one by dragging its tab into another floating dock, OP will have 2 tabs in 1 floating dock
if I recall it was already possible in 2.6 (not sure), but in 2.10, it is possible  

About the font, in this dialog (the one on the screenshot) OP did not said if s/he tried to start to input a font name > a drop down list should appear when typing, if not... I thought Tool Options might help.

But in the end I'm telling myself that it might have been better to open directly the fonts dialog ( Windows > Dockable dialogs > Fonts ) if OP don't see fonts,  s/he click on that arrow at the bottom to re-scan fonts