I've been away for a while, and before I left, I could move my text (while in Text via Tool Manager) wherever I wanted to by clicking and dragging it around. Some few years later, that feature (or the brain cells that I lost, either or) was no longer available. Knowing the developers of GIMP as I do, LOL, I was certain that (RTFM) information was hiding somewhere on the WWW. Did you know the latest tutorial on moving text was posted in 2012? How's that for RTFM?
Well, good ole trusty GIMP.org should have the manual, right? Yup, and here is the entry for moving text:
But guess what? That doesn't work on my Mac dual booting Windows 10. What does work is the alt (option) key when selecting text on the text layer, and that is without using the Move tool, whatsoever.
I've been away too long, but that's life. I'm just glad to be back.
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