The Gimp on Mac OS X: need for double click

2008 december 17
by boskabout

So I didn’t want to spend any cash on PhotoShop and installed The Gimp on my MacBook. Unfortunately, The Gimp runs in X11 and that gives one little but very annoying problem: everytime I change window (e.g.: from Tools to the picture window itself), I have to click twice to do the action I want: first to get focus on the window, and then to do the action I want to do.

This is the solution:

defaults write org.x.X11 wm_click_through -bool true

Enter it in a terminal, and restart X11.

5 Reacties laat een →
  1. 2008 december 18

    Er is ook nog altijd LimeWire. Zo heb ik van horen zeggen he.

  2. 2008 december 18
    boskabout permalink

    The Gimp suits me just fine. ;-)

  3. 2009 januari 18

    did not work for me. (new macbook pro from jan 09)

    I upgraded to the last version of x11, and selected click through inactive window on the preferences.

    That did the trick for me.

  4. 2009 maart 7
    Connor permalink

    Awesome help! Thanks :)

  5. 2009 juni 2
    Lolo permalink

    Since this is the first result I got about double-clicking in GIMP, I thought I’d leave this tidbit here: For those with OSX earlier than Leopard 10.5.5, the command is:
    defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true

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