Re: [Gimp-user] Move tool locks; what's triggering it?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 06/11/17 04:00, OldPhotog wrote:
> I have repeatedly had the recent problem in 2.8 on a Windows 10 machine, that in
> the midst of editing a photo, the move tool gets selected and "locks,"
> preventing any other action whatsoever in GIMP -- nothing I have tried releases
> it, and the only way to stop it is to use Task Manager to close the application
> altogether. Keyboard shortcuts to close, the X, etc. do not work.
>
> I would truly like to know what is triggering this, whether it is a known
> problem, and what I can do other than press Ctrl+S after every blessed edit. I
> have seen some years-old posts from previous versions of some variants of this
> but that's all I have found.

If that happens after a Cut/Paste this is because the active layer is 
the "Floating Selection" and there are restrictions on what you can 
while there is one. You ha e to either "anchor" it (merge it t its 
target paste layer (Ctrl-H) or make it a plain layer ("Layer>To new 
layer" or Ctrl-Shift-N).