On 12/20/06, Gerry JJ wrote:

Hello. Some time ago, the Gimp stopped responding to my mouse in the image window. In other windows and on menus the mouse works fine (ie I can select
brushes and such and use the interface without problems), but in the image window (or more precicely, the canvas area) it's as if the mouse doesn't even
exist. All kinds of clicks are ignored, the rulers doesn't show the position
of the cursor, and the position in the lower left also isn't updated (it is set once upon entering the window, but after that it's dead). My tablet still works fine, but not being able to use the mouse for anything is somewhat annoying.

This originally happened out of the blue one day while using Gimp 2.2.11 (I unfortunately have no idea what caused this to happen). I tried upgrading
to 2.2.12 and then 2.3.13, without success. I also deleted the ~/.gimp* directory in the hope that regenerating the config would fix the problem, but
no. No matter what I do, I can't make the Gimp recognize the mouse in the image window. The mouse isn't anything special, and it used to work with the
exact same X config I've got now. I haven't changed the xorg.conf file in several months. The Gimp is the only application with this problem.

This is on a dual-core amd64 processor in 64-bit mode (haven't tried 32-bit),
Linux kernel 2.6.18, Xorg 7.1.

Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how to fix it ?

Just curious, have you tried using different tools and get the same result?

Hello. Some time ago, the Gimp stopped responding to my mouse in the image
window. In other windows and on menus the mouse works fine (ie I can select
brushes and such and use the interface without problems), but in the image
window (or more precicely, the canvas area) it's as if the mouse doesn't
even
exist. All kinds of clicks are ignored, the rulers doesn't show the position
of the cursor, and the position in the lower left also isn't updated (it is
set once upon entering the window, but after that it's dead). My tablet
still works fine, but not being able to use the mouse for anything is somewhat annoying.

This originally happened out of the blue one day while using Gimp 2.2.11
(I unfortunately have no idea what caused this to happen). I tried upgrading
to 2.2.12 and then 2.3.13, without success. I also deleted the ~/.gimp*
directory in the hope that regenerating the config would fix the problem,
but
no. No matter what I do, I can't make the Gimp recognize the mouse in the
image window. The mouse isn't anything special, and it used to work with
the
exact same X config I've got now. I haven't changed the xorg.conf file in
several months. The Gimp is the only application with this problem.

This is on a dual-core amd64 processor in 64-bit mode (haven't tried 32-bit),
Linux kernel 2.6.18, Xorg 7.1.

Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how to fix it ?

Thanks, ~ Gerry

I have the same problem, can anyone help? If there are bug fixes, please can anyone give me the link?

Hi,

could you go in Edit > Input Devices. You should see a device representing your mouse (here that's called TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint but probably the name can be else), or your touchpad if a laptop. Make sure the mode is "disabled", and not "screen". If on "screen", it may explain why your mouse won't work for drawing. Tell us how it went. :-)

Jehan

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:06 AM, ArRaf wrote:

Hello. Some time ago, the Gimp stopped responding to my mouse in the image
window. In other windows and on menus the mouse works fine (ie I can select
brushes and such and use the interface without problems), but in the image
window (or more precicely, the canvas area) it's as if the mouse doesn't
even
exist. All kinds of clicks are ignored, the rulers doesn't show the position
of the cursor, and the position in the lower left also isn't updated (it is
set once upon entering the window, but after that it's dead). My tablet
still works fine, but not being able to use the mouse for anything is somewhat annoying.

This originally happened out of the blue one day while using Gimp 2.2.11
(I unfortunately have no idea what caused this to happen). I tried upgrading
to 2.2.12 and then 2.3.13, without success. I also deleted the ~/.gimp*
directory in the hope that regenerating the config would fix the problem,
but
no. No matter what I do, I can't make the Gimp recognize the mouse in the
image window. The mouse isn't anything special, and it used to work with
the
exact same X config I've got now. I haven't changed the xorg.conf file in
several months. The Gimp is the only application with this problem.

This is on a dual-core amd64 processor in 64-bit mode (haven't tried 32-bit),
Linux kernel 2.6.18, Xorg 7.1.

Does anyone know what might be causing this, and how to fix it ?

Thanks, ~ Gerry

I have the same problem, can anyone help? If there are bug fixes, please can anyone give me the link?

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Hi,

could you go in Edit > Input Devices. You should see a device representing your mouse (here that's called TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint but probably the name can be else), or your touchpad if a laptop. Make sure the mode is "disabled", and not "screen". If on "screen", it may explain why your mouse won't work for drawing. Tell us how it went. :-)

Jehan

I tried the above ---went to input devices ( it was on screen) changed to "disabled" went to my drawing mouse does not work---back to Input Devices it was on screen again and disable was grayed out----I could not select it again--The image is surrounded by doted lines----not marching ants-----downloaded gimp last week---worked fine died Friday----- HELP