User Guide

CHAPTER 12. DIALOGS 92
Recent Documents List Size Sets the number of previously opened or saved docu-
ments that you can directly access from the Toolbox File menu.
Toolbox
Display Brush, Pattern and Gradient Indicators In theToolBox there is an area dis-
playing the currently active brush, pattern, and gradient. If you don’t want the
area to be present in the ToolBox you can disable it here.
Dialog Behaviour
Navigation Window per Display If you disable this feature, theNavigation Window will
behave like theLayers, Channels& Paths dialog with “Auto” enabled. It will switch
as you switch images.
Info Window Follows Mouse If you enable this feature theInfo Window will behave
like theLayers, Channels& Paths dialog with “Auto” enabled. It will switch as you
switch images.
12.6.2 Help System
General
Show Tool Tips Enables or disables tool tips in The GIMP.
Context Sensitive Help with
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abling context sensitive help. It can sometimes interfere with the window man-
ager. You can still access the context help in the Toolbox Help menu.
Help Browser
Help Browser to Use Lets you choose which HTML browser The GIMP uses for dis-
playing it’s help files: its internal one or your web browser.
12.6.3 Image Windows
Appearance
Use “Dot by Dot” by default Let’s you choose whether to activate the pixel-by-pixel
mode by default or not.
Resize Window on Zoom Enables and disables window resize on zoom. Normally
when you zoom, the window size will not be affected. If you enable this function,
the size of the window will be adjusted to fit the size of the image when you zoom
in or out. Zooming in will enlarge the window and zooming out will shrink the
window.
Show Rulers Controls whether you want to show the rulers or not by default.
Show Statusbar Controls whether you want to show the statusbar or not by default.