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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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HTML
59 lines
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HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Preferences / Directories</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">Directories</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<P>
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Gimp uses several directories to store such things as addon filters (plug-ins),
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scripts, brushes etc. but also it's swap and temporary files.
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<P>
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The top view in Directories controls Temp Dir and Swap Dir. The Swap Dir
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is by default in your personal Gimp directory located in your home directory.
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It's quite usual that your home dir is on a NFS (UNIX) or SMB (Windows) server.
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If it is then Gimp will memory swap slowed down due to network latency. It's
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there for very important that the Gimp directory is a local directory such
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as e.g /tmp under Unix or C:\temp under Windows. The temp dir is a directory
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where Gimp will store temporary files such as e.g palettes that you work
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with. The temp dir should not be in a public directory such as /tmp and but
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a directory that only you read and write have access to.
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<P>
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The sub categories such as Brushes, Patterns, Plug-Ins controls where Gimp
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will search for those items and in which order.
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<P>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<EM>Change a search path:</EM>
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<DD>
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Mark it by clicking on it, type the changed path or browse the files system
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with ... browse button, press enter to activate the new path.
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<DT>
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<EM>Change search order:</EM>
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<DD>
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Mark a search path, click on the up or down buttons to change the search
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order.
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<DT>
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<EM>New search path:</EM>
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<DD>
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Click on the new button (the paper) type the path or browse the files system
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with ... browse button, press enter to activate the path.
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<DT>
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<EM>Delete path:</EM>
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<DD>
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Mark the path and click on the trashcan.
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<DT>
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</DL>
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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