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ssnailzz

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Registered: 2023-03-20

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

Hello i  updated my system today and when i tried to open gimp, it took 2-3 mins to boot into the program
I did restart my system mutiple times but the issue still persists
I even tried removing the .config and .cache files of gimp and gegl too
I don't know what else i can do now
I tried to find a report about this on gimp's gitlab page and i couldn't find it
This is the closest issue i could find
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/12848
Please help ;_;

Last edited by ssnailzz (2025-03-22 00:40:09)

icar

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From: Catalunya

Registered: 2020-07-31

Posts: 528

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

My first start of GIMP 3 also took a while. I guess it's migrating stuff… But that was only the first time. Now it starts normally. Do you have lots of plugins?

apaz

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Registered: 2018-07-23

Posts: 122

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

Try using both flatpak and appimage. For me on KDE and Xorg, appimage gives no problems.
https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/linux/

ssnailzz

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Registered: 2023-03-20

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

My first start of GIMP 3 also took a while. I guess it's migrating stuff… But that was only the first time. Now it starts normally. Do you have lots of plugins?

nope
i don't have any plugins installed

ssnailzz

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Registered: 2023-03-20

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

Try using both flatpak and appimage. For me on KDE and Xorg, appimage gives no problems.
https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v3.0/linux/

i also use kde and xorg
trying the appimage now

ssnailzz

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Registered: 2023-03-20

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

the appimage works like a charm!
thank you apaz

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 62,901

Re: [SOLVED] GIMP 3.0.0-1 taking upwards of 2 mins to boot

You could also run gimp in a virtual machine…

Check the system journal for some xdg-portal errors and in doubt "strace -f -tt -o /tmp/gimp.strace gimp" to see where it stalls, but on several minutes delay (and assuming the gtk2 version wasn't affected) this smells like socket timeouts which would hint at a larger problem of a system misconfiguration.

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