GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 444291
a green "mouse trace" after opening image
Last modified: 2008-10-30 19:57:09 UTC
Hi, when I open an image (jpeg), the paintbrush tool is selected by default. And now, when I move over the image without holding any mouse button, a green "trace" of the mouse pointer is "painted" (little green circles like the default brush). Not really painted - when I zoom in or out, this trace is away (any shortcut for "refresh view" is not available, isn't it?). I have built Gimp 2.3.16-dev from source using this: Suse Linux 10.0 IceWM 1.2.30 (Gnome is installed, but not used) glib 2.13.2 gtk+ 2.10.12 libart_lgpl 2.3.19 pango 1.17.0 atk 1.9.1 I have made a screenshot, but I cannot send it to You this way :-(. Okay, I hope that helps. Sincerely, Ralph Stahl
Created attachment 89402 [details] selection of a just opened image with mouse trace
The described mouse trace seems to appear everytime, when I select the brush - not only after opening an image...
This is most likely a bug in your X11 video card driver, which we unfortunately can't do anything about. In your gimprc ( ~/.gimp-2.3/gimprc ) you'll find the setting "xor-color". Try changing this to (xor-color (color-rgb 1.0 1.0 1.0)) maybe this helps at this point. Closing this bug as NOTGNOME, please feel free to reopen it, if there is some evidence that this is not a X11-driver bug.
(In reply to comment #3) xor-color (color-rgb 1.0 1.0 1.0) turns the trace from green to white - nothing else :-(. Okay, thank You!
Ok, with some drivers the different color for XOR-drawing helps, but unfortunately not for you. Since these traces do not happen for everyone and the XOR-drawing has caused trouble with various drivers in the past, there is nothing I can do to help you right now, except to recommend, that you try different drivers for your graphics card. I don't see what we could do about it. In the more distant future we will abandon the XOR-based drawing, then this problem will no longer be relevant. For now you can just disable the brush outline in the preferences.
(In reply to comment #5) > Ok, with some drivers the different color for XOR-drawing helps, but > unfortunately not for you. Your hint from 2007-06-05 works fine now with Gimp 2.4.3 on Fedora Core 8. Without this color setting it was a green trace again. Maybe it is anonther driver in FC8... Thank You! Ralph
*** Bug 544404 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Duplicating to avoid confusion. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 421466 ***