Sorry for ringing the alarm bell. A reboot fixed it.
I am a long-time GIMP user and “something” happened earlier when suddenly everything disappeared except the canvas.
Then I closed Gimp and did: rm -rf ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/
After I started it, the UI was back but now, arranging the layout (dragging some tabs to better places for a faster workflow) instantly freezes the UI.
To be more specific. Dragging the tabs on the right side (brushes etc.) causes the freeze.
The only change I did today is upgrading the kernel to 6.11.1-2-cachyos. That’s it. Anyone else having issues with Gimp?
Last night, I was on a deadline and after about 15 minutes of fighting with GIMP where nothing I tried worked, I posted here to ask if others experience this too.
After I rebooted, I could finally tweak the UI and so far, no issues.
When I wrote the initial post, I mentioned that nothing had changed, except, that I did an update prior to running into the issue with GIMP.
After struggling to restore the UI layout, I posted here, wondering, if others had experienced what I did.
It was frustrating to not be able to finish the job and it would have been helpful if someone would have confirmed that Gimp has issies because of a recent update of library x.
As already stated, rebooting did let me get Gimp back on track. How ever, last night, I had about 30 small images open so that I could quickly watermark them and again, noticed that dragging the little thumbnails causes a kind of “flickering” on the Gimp top row where thumbnails are displayed.
So far, I have not found anyone mentioning this and, because of that, we can rule out kernel issues as this seems to be happening just to me.
I hope this clears things up and again, thank you for suggesting the kernel swap which I would have done if rebooting made no difference.