selection not visible until mouse-button released (bug?)
(sorry for the late reply, was travelling)
peter kostov writes:
On 04/28/2011 11:51 PM, Burnie West wrote:
On 04/28/2011 01:08 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
I'm trying to use GIMP on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), installed using the
regular packages. It seems to work fine apart from one problem: when I
make a selection with e.g. the rectangle selection tool, there's no
visible feedback of how big the selection is, only the cursor is visible
(couldn't take a screenshot while the mouse button was clicked, but
tried to show it at http://bildr.no/image/872092.jpeg ).
If I try to resize a rectangle, the inside purple line moves, while the
outside purple line stays where it was (instead of showing how big the
new rectangle will become when I release the mouse button).
Also, possibly related, there are sometimes purple artifacts from old
selections.
Anyone know if this is a bug or if I've just managed to flip some
odd setting?
My GIMP (2.6.11) always shows the whole rectangle. I've never seen the
behavior you describe. I'm on Fedora, using the standard install.
I've seen similar problems caused by insufficient video RAM, also you
should verify if "View" -> "Show selection" is checked.
"Show selection" is checked.
Is 32 MB VRAM too little? It's reproducible even on 640x480 px images…
That is, /var/log/Xorg.0.log says
[ 16.559] (--) SIS(0): VideoRAM: 32768 KB
for my
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
But yes, hardware/driver trouble seems likely :-/
Guess I'll try if it's still not working in GIMP 2.7.2 just to make
sure.
