On Saturday 03 March 2007 20:21, Gerard wrote:

FreeBSD-6.2
xcfe4.4.0

I seem to be having a problem getting gimp-2.3 to start correctly. This is the first time I have attempted to use this program.

When I start it from xfce4.4.0, all that appears is a splash screen with the words 'initializing' listed. That screen will stay indefinitely. Gimp, does create the files in $HOME, but that is about it.

This is the command line I am using:

/usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3

What am I doing wrong here?

Isn't just gimp enough?

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:56:26 +0200 vt wrote:

Isn't just gimp enough?

Evidently not. Gimp is registered under that name.

$ which gimp => nothing $ which gimp-2.3 => /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3

I checked the gimp FAQs and there was a mention about this depending on what version you are using. I also discovered that this is a know bug. apparently, under certain circumstances, you must use the '-s' flag when starting gimp to eliminate this problem. It has something to do with the animated GIF splash screen. I have not had a chance to try it yet though.

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:21:54 -0500 Gerard wrote:

FreeBSD-6.2
xcfe4.4.0

I seem to be having a problem getting gimp-2.3 to start correctly. This is the first time I have attempted to use this program.

When I start it from xfce4.4.0, all that appears is a splash screen with the words 'initializing' listed. That screen will stay indefinitely. Gimp, does create the files in $HOME, but that is about it.

This is the command line I am using:

/usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3

What am I doing wrong here?

Probably nothing. What is the output of 'ls -l /usr/local/bin|grep gimp'

Do you have another gimp installation?

When you built Gimp-2.3, did you set all the environment variables so that it wouldn't get confused with your other gimp as explaind in the README or INSTALL notes?

Just guessing

Owen

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:18:06 +1100 Owen wrote:

Probably nothing. What is the output of 'ls -l /usr/local/bin|grep gimp'

Do you have another gimp installation?

When you built Gimp-2.3, did you set all the environment variables so that it wouldn't get confused with your other gimp as explaind in the README or INSTALL notes?

This was built from the FreeBSD ports system. There was no other version of 'gimp' installed on this PC.

normally you should use the startup script listed on gimp.org site for launching

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/bin:$PATH export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/gimp-2.3/bin/gimp-2.3 "$@"

(provided you installed to /opt so you'd have to change that)

I had this problem as well, try staring it from the CLI with:

gimp-2.3 --verbose -d -f

(no data, no fonts)

On 3/4/07, Jozef Legeny wrote:

normally you should use the startup script listed on gimp.org site for launching

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/bin:$PATH export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/gimp-2.3/bin/gimp-2.3 "$@"

(provided you installed to /opt so you'd have to change that) --
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:31:46 -0800 "Anthony Ettinger" wrote:

I had this problem as well, try staring it from the CLI with:

gimp-2.3 --verbose -d -f

(no data, no fonts)

I got it working by simply using the '-s' switch. It is documented that some of the gimp versions had a problem with animated splash screens. I believe ti has been corrected in the latest development version however.