I was messing about with The GIMP the other day and managed to close the tab that appears in the lower half of the window titled “The GIMP”. Aargh! And then it took me ages to find out how to fix this.

So here is what you have to do…

  1. Click on File, Dialogues, Tool Options (Shift+Ctrl+T)
  2. A new window will appear. Its appearance depends on which tool is currently selected in the toolbox (which is the official name for The GIMP window).
  3. Click on the top line (the one with the same button you used to close the dialog in the first place) and drag it over to “The GIMP” window
  4. When you start dragging, the cursor will change to a button labelled “Tool Options”
  5. Drop it on the small bar below the tools. The bar will turn dark when you can drop the dialog

That’s it.

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