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The save dialog closes, and in my habit-riddled mind, that means the save is complete, so I quit. Only to realize seconds later my mistake.

I hope there's some solution to this, because "just remembering" doesn't seem to work.

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[–] CallMeAl@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OK hear me out, so I've been out drinking but I had this idea. You need to know when the save is done, right? Assuming you are on linux, you could use itnotify to alert you each time a save completes of your gimp files by ringing the console bell. Then you know you can't quit until you hear the bell.

I don't know if it would work. Maybe something like this

#!/bin/bash  

# Target directory to watch (where the gimp files are)  
WATCH_DIR="$HOME/Projects"  

echo "Listening for completed GIMP saves in $WATCH_DIR..."  

# Monitor for files closed after being written to  
inotifywait -m -r -e close_write --format '%f' "$WATCH_DIR" | while read -r FILE  
do  
    # Check if the modified file is a GIMP file (.xcf)  
    if [[ "$FILE" == *.xcf ]]; then  
        echo "Finished saving: $FILE"  
        
        # Trigger the system bell (or substitute with an 'aplay' command for a custom sound)  
        echo -e "\a" 
    fi  
done  
[–] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Calm down Satan.