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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:25 am    Post subject: Placing guides with Gimp captures mouse forever (almost) Reply with quote

Hi.

I've had this issue with Gentoo and Fedora 14 at least but I'd like to know if anyone here has found a fix or a workaround.

In Gimp I can no longer place (i.e. set) guides with my mouse (I can drag existing ones though); mouse click events are captured once I click a ruler and until I switch to another virtual desktop. When I click a ruler to drag a guide, nothing happens but the pointer turns into the cross as soon as I release the left mouse button, it doesn't drag anything and Gimp seems to eat up all mouse/wheel click events (moving the pointer is okay). The only kind of click that seems to work so far is through the virtual desktop selector so I can switch to another VD and back to Gimp. In this case Gimp is back to normal

Pressing the ESC key doesn't work while Gimp is in that weird state. No context menu shows when I right-click the desktop, Alt+F2 (Xfce) doesn't pop any dialog box and I can't close my session; Alt-F4 doesn't work either.

So if you have already come across such a weird behaviour and found a workaround, please let me know. I still can place guide with the measuring tool but it's not the most convenient way...

Thanks in advance.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bug filed.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Same bug here (Gimp 2.6.11, amd64, Xfce) with the guides and mouse grab on rulers. No warnings if i launch in console (gimp-2.6 --verbose --g-fatal-warnings). Please report here if you have any news.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fenril wrote:
Please report here if you have any news.

Sure thing :) .
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problem apparently disappears when you... kill xscreensaver!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many thanks VinzC !

So it's because xscreensaver... Strange. So i have to kill every time i want use Gimp and wait for a xscreensaver update.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fenril wrote:
So i have to kill every time i want use Gimp and wait for a xscreensaver update.

I guess so. Let's hope version 5.13 really cures the issue.
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