Sent: 2010-07-02 03:53:05 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: zootybubbles

Can't get Gimp to work

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I just downloaded Gimp in hopes of being able to use it to edit my photos.
However, when I opened it and clicked to add a picture, my entire screen
turned grey and was unresponsive. I had to use the power button to get the
option to restart. I tried Gimp three more times and each time it failed and
I had to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can get Gimp to
work.

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Sent: 2010-07-02 03:59:35 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Patrick Shanahan

Can't get Gimp to work

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* zootybubbles [07-01-10 21:56]:
> I just downloaded Gimp in hopes of being able to use it to edit my photos.
> However, when I opened it and clicked to add a picture, my entire screen
> turned grey and was unresponsive. I had to use the power button to get the
> option to restart. I tried Gimp three more times and each time it failed and
> I had to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can get Gimp to
> work.

Are you trying to run it on a computer?

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Sent: 2010-07-02 09:14:23 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Bob Long

Can't get Gimp to work

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zootybubbles wrote,

> I just downloaded Gimp in hopes of being able to use it to edit my photos.
> However, when I opened it and clicked to add a picture, my entire screen
> turned grey and was unresponsive. I had to use the power button to get the
> option to restart. I tried Gimp three more times and each time it failed and
> I had to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can get Gimp to
> work.

What is your operating system?
What version of GIMP?
From where did you download it?

What exactly did you "click to add a picture"?

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Sent: 2010-07-02 10:44:01 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Branko Vukelic

Can't get Gimp to work

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> Are you trying to run it on a computer?

Haha, funny. :D

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Sent: 2010-07-03 18:33:56 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: zootybubbles

Can't get Gimp to work

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>zootybubbles wrote,
>
>> I just downloaded Gimp in hopes of being able to use it to edit my
photos.
>> However, when I opened it and clicked to add a picture, my entire screen
>> turned grey and was unresponsive. I had to use the power button to get
the
>> option to restart. I tried Gimp three more times and each time it failed
and
>> I had to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can get Gimp
to
>> work.
>
>What is your operating system?
>What version of GIMP?
> From where did you download it?
>
>What exactly did you "click to add a picture"?
>
>
I use Leopard 10.5.8.
I downloaded Gimp 2.6.8 from http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html
(which is where www.gimp.org lead me).
When I opened the program there was a box with an image of the Gimp fox-thing
in it and it said "Drag image here", so I clicked on my image to drag it and
the screen went gray. Before doing that though, if I were to just click in the
box with the fox-thing, the screen would go gray too.

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Sent: 2010-07-03 20:05:56 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: photocomix

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maybe funny but you must add details

anyway what kind of computer
(very old with very few ram..or a more modern dual core with at least 1GB
ram...or some quadricore monster at 64 bit with tons and tons of Ram...
...or maybe a netbook ?)
what OS
what version of gimp

>On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Patrick Shanahan
wrote:
>> Are you trying to run it on a computer?
>
>Haha, funny. :D
>
>
>

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Sent: 2010-07-04 18:47:46 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Jozef Legény

Can't get Gimp to work

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The X11 version of GIMP for OSX (the usual one, which you can download
from the site you mentioned), doesn't support drag and dropping images
onto it as far as I know.

The problem you are talking about looks like the X11 application got
into full screen mode. Try pressing command+alt+a when it does it
again to quit the fullscreen mode.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 18:33, zootybubbles wrote:
>>zootybubbles wrote,
>>
>>> I just downloaded Gimp in hopes of being able to use it to edit my
> photos.
>>> However, when I opened it and clicked to add a picture, my entire screen
>>> turned grey and was unresponsive.  I had to use the power button to get
> the
>>> option to restart.  I tried Gimp three more times and each time it failed
> and
>>> I had to restart.  Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can get Gimp
> to
>>> work.
>>
>>What is your operating system?
>>What version of GIMP?
>> From where did you download it?
>>
>>What exactly did you "click to add a picture"?
>>
>>
> I use Leopard 10.5.8.
> I downloaded Gimp 2.6.8 from http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html
> (which is where www.gimp.org lead me).
> When I opened the program there was a box with an image of the Gimp fox-thing
> in it and it said "Drag image here", so I clicked on my image to drag it and
> the screen went gray. Before doing that though, if I were to just click in the
> box with the fox-thing, the screen would go gray too.
>
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>

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Sent: 2010-07-04 19:30:39 UTC (over 1 year ago)

From: Mike Williams

Can't get Gimp to work

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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM, zootybubbles wrote:

> When I opened the program there was a box with an image of the Gimp
> fox-thing
> in it and it said "Drag image here", so I clicked on my image to drag it
> and
> the screen went gray. Before doing that though, if I were to just click in
> the
> box with the fox-thing, the screen would go gray too.
>
>
Try using File/Open to open the image. Let us know what happens.

Mike

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