GIMP Selection Tool Select-To-Move 2.10

It seems like in 2.10 they reworked the selection tool in GIMP 2.10. I used to be able to use the rectangle selection tool, drag over an area and use the move tool to move that selection. When I try to do this in 2.10 however, I end up moving the whole image.

Upon searching it up, I only found 1 forum thread talking about how you need to 'commit' the selection by pressing Enter. When I do this it focuses on the selection and blacks out everything, shown in the link below. How do I get out of this odd mode and how do I use the selection tool to copy or move a selection in GIMP 2.10?

After I use rectangle select tool to select a part of the image and then press Enter to confirm my selection, I get this:

The image shows yellow dotted line around the whole image and the selection is shown but nothing else is.

2 Answers

You can move the selected image section in combination with certain keys. I use GIMP 2.10.22 under Windows 10.

The selected image section is shown after a rectangle selection, for example, with the following mouse pointer:

The mouse pointer changes after pressing the Alt key in order to still move the selection:

The mouse pointer changes after pressing the combination Alt + Shift key to move the selection as a copy:

Edit:

I got it - you are not using the Rectangle Select Tool to select a rectangular region (keyboard: R) but using the Crop Tool to remove edge areas from image or layer (keyboard: Shift+C). This of course is different.

Please note Delete cropped pixels is enabled here and this is resulting in the second window.

For further information I recommend watching some YouTube Video like Using Crop and Move Tools. Crop and selection were clearly explained in this tutorial for different use cases.

The real answer, I finally found out, is that I was accidently using the Crop feature instead of the Rectangle Select feature. When pressing Enter, it commits the crop the image to selection by default. I would then CTRL-C and undo and paste. This is for anyone else who may have had a similar issue: hover over to see if you are using the correct tool.