* 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?

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"?

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

Are you trying to run it on a computer?

Haha, funny. :D

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

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.

-- zootybubbles (via www.gimpusers.com)

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