Re: [Gimp-user] layer positioning

[Gary Aitken <gimp dreamchaser org>]

On 01/02/14 19:27, akovia wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014, at 08:46 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > On 01/02/14 17:48, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> > This would be great, but...
> > I must be missing something; running 2.8.10 on fbsd.
> > When I click on the alignment buttons, nothing happens, and they don't
> > change 
> > appearance on mouse-down or mouse-up.
> > I can't quite tell from the glyphs, but they look like they may be greyed
> > out; at
> > least they are overall a lot lighter than most of the toolbox glyphs;
> > they look about
> > like the bucket-fill tool.  The "Offset" text box is active and allows
> > changes,
> > and the reset options does its thing.
> > No error messages that I can see.
> >
> > Any ideas what would cause them to be inactive?
> > All other tools seem to work.
>
> Sounds to me like you haven't selected the object yet.
>
> Select the alignment tool or shortcut "q"
> Activate the layer you want to align.
> (Make sure this layer is cropped smaller than the image size)
> You should have a hand cursor to select the object on the canvas. when
> you do you should see 4 small squares outlining how big the object is
> that you want to align.
> Now select the alignment buttons in the toolbox.
>
> I hope this is all it is and this works for you.

Thank you.
Took me a while to figure out -- I had a mostly transparent layer on top and the 
selection goes by stacking order.

An excellent solution to the problem; using the rulers to snap was also good.

Thanks all for your help.

Gary