This is how you can keep both the GIMP version in Ubuntu without adding another PPA for latest version. Note that, whatever GIMP version you have used last time for opening image/xcf files – that would remain as default unless changed again. You can choose your desire version to open and edit your image. In the context menu of associated files such as *.xcf which is a GIMP image files, you would see two versions of GIMP as well.Right click and click on add to favorites to add them in the dock. You can click any of them and see what version they are of.You can see two versions of GIMP is present. If you need to install Gimp on multiple PCs you would want also the offline installer of Gimp. Once installed, click on show applications and search for Gimp. Attention Silent install guides for other application here: Complete List.Open terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and run below commands.GIMP 2.8 and GIMP 2.10 Running in Ubuntu Install GIMP via Snap Here’s how you can have both for your use in a single Ubuntu installation. However, using Flatpak/Snap it is possible to have GIMP 2.8 and GIMP 2.10 together in a single system running Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10. There is a PPA which you can use to install GIMP 2.10, but it would remove the 2.8 version from the system and also you end up adding another PPA. The official Ubuntu repositories still having GIMP 2.8 as default, hence installing GIMP using Software or ‘apt get install gimp’ would install the 2.8 version. The latest GIMP 2.10 released on later half of 2018 and it brings a huge set of improvements such as a dark theme support and enhancements. You can help by testing this version once it is published, because we're not sure if this causes other weird behavior (as the current event discarding was introduced to fix something).If you want to install two GIMP version in parallel in Ubuntu, here’s how you can do it. We got a GTK+ patch in the GIMP source tree and plan to test this with GIMP 2.9.8 on the MS Windows platforms. What can be done is to change the GTK+ source code to prevent this from happening. GDK receives the mouse click, checks if any of the applications windows ar have been clicked, finds that they are covered by another applications windows, and discards the event.and this exactly the case in the bug report: an application uses a full-screen transparent window to capture mouse gestures globally.it could be that this location is covered by another application's windows, however.Usually this is the uppermost window at the click location if a mouse event happens, in particular a click, the UI toolkit (GTK+, its GDK subsystem) has to figure out what window this event should go to.It is an actual design choice for the GTK+ event handling, and was introduced to fix a bug: It has most recently been examined in a bug report for the GIMP applications, see

There is, however, one issue within GTK+ which can cause symptoms like this, and is persistent as long as the triggering application are running. The list of issues linked to is diverse, and seems to be about some different causes. This seems to be fixed in GIMP v2.9.8 (devel). could it be something with 圆4? I'll have to test that. It works just fine on my home laptop (Win10) and work laptop (Win10). I have resorted to using an old version of inkscape (v0.48.2). However, in one of the reports, it seems some linux users were affected as well.Ĭan anyone shed some light on this? Is there a fix or workaround? Or is there theory as to why this is happening? Update I am not sure if this MS Windows specific, but I can confirm this bug on some Win7 and Win10 PCs. However, that is different since for that case, single-window-mode is a functioning workaround, but it does work. I know of this issue, Is there a way to fix gimp on OSX to solve the xwindows focus issue? I have searched many sources and they all lead to inconclusive bug reports or reports that a fix is not in the making. These were once working really well, but now I tend to avoid them when I can. This currently affect GIMP 2.8.22 (occasionally in multiwindow, frequently in single-window-mode) and Inkscape 0.92.2, making them practically unusable. This bug is essentially when click one toolbar, then going to another area of the application, the window focus is not being correctly updated. As many have, this bug was first noticed quite a few years back (~2010).

Gimp 2.8.22 themes