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JonathanArcher

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From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

[Solved] Weird GIMP behavior, no reaction to clicking

Since a few days I experience a very strange behavior of GIMP. Sometimes, and I have no idea on what circumstance that depends, it does not react to my mouse clicks. Actually I use a Wacom tablet, but that also happens with my Synaptics touchpad and outside of GIMP everything is fine. So it would go like this, I open GIMP, then I click on "open file" which gives me the corresponding file dialogue but then I can't click anything in that dialog and not even move the bar to scroll in my directories, I can just close the dialog. Then if I try for one or two more times, it works again. But it also happens with all the other dialogues.

I reinstalled GIMP, but that did not help. I tried to look for other threads about that but couldn't really find anything. This is really annoying because I have a bunch of photos I wanted to edit and I don't know any other comparable programme for that in Linux but also I don't want to switch to a different programme since I like GIMP.

Last edited by JonathanArcher (2009-11-01 10:11:23)

JohnVV

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From: Ann Arbor, Mi. U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-09-30

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Re: [Solved] Weird GIMP behavior, no reaction to clicking

is this the pacman install of gimp or did you ( like i do ) build it from source .

corresponding file dialogue but then I can't click anything in that dialog and not even move the bar to scroll in my directories,

this sounds like a gtk crash or lock up

do you ( on gnome ??? i take it ) have "System Monitor" installed on the top menu bar ?
if so how is the cpu ? is it at 100% or 3 to 10 %

Last edited by JohnVV (2009-10-31 20:30:45)

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JonathanArcher

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From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

Re: [Solved] Weird GIMP behavior, no reaction to clicking

It's gimp from extra and I don't use Gnome but KDE4, and the CPU is not used 100%, just the normal percentages. I don't remember if there has been a gtk update recently which may be the cause of this? I came back from a holiday just on Wednesday, did an update then (no update for around 2 weeks before that) and only from then on this behavior showed up, had no problems a few weeks ago.

But then again, I also use firefox and do not have any problems with it and firefox uses gtk, doesn't it?

Last edited by JonathanArcher (2009-10-31 20:50:16)

JonathanArcher

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From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

Re: [Solved] Weird GIMP behavior, no reaction to clicking

Ok, I just moved/deleted the config-files of gimp and after that it seems to work normal again.

Last edited by JonathanArcher (2009-11-01 10:11:06)

JunglePenguin

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-12-27

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Weird GIMP behavior, no reaction to clicking

Thanks a lot. Had this problem for a while and it became really annoying. Removing the config files did solve it for me too.