Is there a way to open a blank Gimp page?

[00darkfox00]

When I first open Gimp I get a blank page, there's no template I have to create or anything, but when I try to open a new page to adjust other images it make me create a template, even deleting the background layer it starts with gets me an alpha channel.

Is there a way to open a new Gimp window without having to create a template? Like for pasting images into?

[00darkfox00]

Thank you =)

[linkskywalker]

In ~20 years of searching the internet for answers to my tech questions, I don't think I've ever encountered a result as frustrating as this one.

oodarkfoxoo describes literally the exact question I would like to have answered. Moreover, they are the only result of my search which does so.

oodarkfoxoo apparently had their question answered to their satisfaction.

Yet that answer is nowhere to be found.

[paynekj]

As this forum has been dead for a long time and the spammers keep attempting to take-over we have all gone to https://www.gimp-forum.net

In order to reinforce the idea that you should not use this forum, some of us have deleted all our old posts - hence the situation above.