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The Gimp won't launch.

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The Gimp won't launch. edward storm 23 Jun 02:23
  The Gimp won't launch. Axel Wernicke 28 Jun 00:06
edward storm
2008-06-23 02:23:56 UTC (over 16 years ago)

The Gimp won't launch.

I'm an innocent and naive iMac user who uses The Gimp only now and then for fairly simple things. Now, all of a sudden, I can't launch The Gimp. I click on its icon in the dock and the word "Gimp" appears in the tool bar alongside the Apple icon, but nothing else shows up in the tool bar, and the window for The Gimp doesn't appear. I just finished downloading Gimp 2.4.6 and it still behaves as just described. Gimp.app is in my Applications folder, all 111 megabytes, and X11 is in my Utilities folder. The Apple technical person I spoke with said it had to be a Gimp problem, after we tried several things, none of which I understood. (Create a new account and see if The Gimp launches in it. Shut down the computer and see if that helps. Download The Gimp again and see if it works. Etc.) Can anyone suggest some way I can understand this and try to restore The Gimp to functionality? Thanks.

Axel Wernicke
2008-06-28 00:06:01 UTC (over 16 years ago)

The Gimp won't launch.

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Hi,

what OS X version are you on? If 10.5.x - did you read about the need to update X11? If the answers are yes and no, please go to http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/download.html and read the system requirements and update hints.

Greetings, lexA

Am 23.06.2008 um 02:23 schrieb edward storm:

I'm an innocent and naive iMac user who uses The Gimp only now and then for fairly simple things. Now, all of a sudden, I can't launch The Gimp. I click on its icon in the dock and the word "Gimp" appears in the tool bar alongside the Apple icon, but nothing else shows up in the tool bar, and the window for The Gimp doesn't appear. I just finished downloading Gimp 2.4.6 and it still behaves as just described. Gimp.app is in my Applications folder, all 111 megabytes, and X11 is in my Utilities folder. The Apple technical person I spoke with said it had to be a Gimp problem, after we tried several things, none of which I understood. (Create a new account and see if The Gimp launches in it. Shut down the computer and see if that helps. Download The Gimp again and see if it works. Etc.) Can anyone suggest some way I can understand this and try to restore The Gimp to functionality? Thanks.