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Gimp: Toolbox restore - how to

  • Oct 09, 2025
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Should be gone from your tool box in the image editing program "Gimp", you can connect this in two ways again. How to do this, we will show you in this practical tip.

Gimp - all of the Docks to show or hide

  1. Possibly you will be while working with Gimp on the tab key got. Press again, so that the Docks will be visible again.
  2. Alternatively, you can hide the Docks on the tab "window" > "dock" to show or hide.
Docks view

Tool box via the "Close" button disappeared

You should be on the red cross, "" close, you are free to make the tool box on a different path visible again:
  1. Click in the main window of the "Gimp" on the tab "window".
  2. You move the mouse over the Option "Recently closed Docks". You will find the "tool box", you can restore it with a click on the entry again.
  3. The menu should be empty, you will find a little further down the Option "New tool box". After you have selected this entry will appear in the tool box on your screen.
Tool box show
This tip applies to GIMP 2.8.10. In another practical tip we will show you how you Gimp the language change can.

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