[Gimp-user] copying and pasting layer groups as layer groups

[bobdobbs <forums gimpusers com>]

I'd like to be to select a layer groups and copy them over to another pre-existing image.

I've been struggling with this for an hour or so, and I haven't found a way to do this.

Is is possible to do this in GIMP?

The closet I've found is a kind of paste where you do this: drag the tab of the origin image over to the tab 
of the target image. The result is a new layer in the target image called "dropped buffer". However, the 
entire origin image is imported flattened.

I've been trying other drag and drop operations, but without success. Usually when I drop the selection to 
the target image, the icon under the mouse dissapears, and nothing actually happens.

I thought this might be a window manager problem. But I get the same results across kde, gnome and xfce.

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