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When I make a selection in GIMP, I would like to make the selection boundaries more prominent by changing marching ant speed, but I can't find the setting.
Im using GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu and I have looked through the "preferences" options, but I just cant see it.

Where can I find the control for changing marching ants speed?

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  • +1 simply for "marching ants" -- I had no idea there was a term for this! Aug 13, 2015 at 14:16

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You can set this in the your gimprc file. See http://www.gimp.org/man/gimprc.html

(marching-ants-speed 200) Speed of marching ants in the selection outline. This value is in milliseconds (less time indicates faster marching). This is an integer value.

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I found the control for changing marching ants speed under

edit > preferences > Image Windows

I found this a better option than changing the gimprc files directly because

  • If you arent used to the gimprc syntax you might cause the script to fail on parsing.
  • in the GUI control the marching ants speed updates in real time as you adjust the speed dial.
  • If you adjust in the GUI, you retain the option of "reseting all tool configs" - in case you broke something and cant remember what changes you made!
    As the gimprc files are hardcoded I suspect they wont reposnd to "reset tool config"

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