[Gimp-user] Panning whilst using a tool

[rich2005 <forums gimpusers com>]

> I've made the shift from 2.6 to 2.8 a couple of months ago (don't
> judge me, when 2.8 first came out I was only just working out 2.6 and
> all the settings were intimidating, and after that I just forgot)
>
> Anyway, in 2.6 if I was, for example, using a 30% opacity brush and
> wanted to continue outside my current painting area, I could use the
> middle click button on my stylus to grab the canvas, drag it over and
> continue without lifting the pen - avoiding me having to try and line
> up my brush with the edge of the last section I did to try and keep it
> from overlapping since I'm using a set opacity.

This could be specific to your OS, but still working with my ancient wacom
tablet and Kubuntu 16

You could try pressing the space bar, that toggles the move canvas action here.

rich
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