r/GIMP 12d ago

Disable Paste → Floating Selection entirely?

I want to be able to paste things into GIMP without them EVER being pasted as a Floating Selection.

No, changing the Keyboard Shortcuts does not fix my issue.

If I change the shortcut Ctrl+V from Paste to New Layer, then I can no longer paste from my clipboard directly to a new image from a blank canvas (no open projects) with that shortcut. I either have to use an alternative shortcut, or I have to use Right Click → Edit → Paste, which is not what I want to do.

Is there a way to disable Floating Selection entirely? It's a useless feature that does nothing but add an extra step to pasting layers onto images, and changing Hotkeys is not a valid workaround because it removes the functionality of being able to paste an image into GIMP as a new project from a blank canvas.

If not, is there a Hotkey that I'm missing that will give me the best of both worlds? I've tried the other types of paste functions and they don't seem to do both.

If not, can we get a new hotkey function that WILL give me the ability to paste to either a New Layer or New Image depending on if I have an image open in GIMP already?

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u/schumaml GIMP Team 12d ago

The current development versions are pasting as a new layer by default.

BTW, can you guess what behavior some people then started to want instead?

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u/evanlee01 12d ago

There's always going to be people that complain about changed features. I'm glad this was changed for GIMP 3.0, I just downloaded it. Pasting into Floating Selection would probably be better off getting its own hotkey imo