GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 682760
Clone Stamp will not retrieve source
Last modified: 2012-10-08 11:43:34 UTC
I hit ctrl and I clicked to get the source of the image to clone, but it would not use the source. I tried to do it with another layer, but same problem. My OS is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on Acer Aspire 5724 laptop. Gimp version is 2.8.0
What are the exact steps (click by click) to reproduce the problem? Also it is welcome to try version 2.8.2 and report back (this might require to ask your distribution to provide an updated version).
Please do as André asked and step-by-step describe what you are doing.
I received a report at http://bugs.debian.org/686864 that was related to GNOME's "Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed" setting being on. Since there's no other explanation on this bug, I think it would be prudent to assume it's due to that. When that GNOME option is enabled and you try to Ctrl+click with the Clone or other tools, the following is printed to the console: gimp_display_shell_keyboard_grab: gdk_keyboard_grab failed with status 1
I have to mention that this bug still occured with debian unstables GIMP 2.8.2. I tried 2.8.2 before finding the relation to the function that Ari already named.
I really don't know what to do here, somebody else holds a pointer grab, and that somebody is the window manager, the debian bug said gnome3, so i'm moving this bug to mutter.
I meant to write "keyboard grab".
Re-assigning to the correct module.
Created attachment 225907 [details] [review] mouse: Also grab button presses so as to replay them on locate pointer Applications might want to establish keyboard grabs on button presses so we should also ungrab the keyboard when a button press occurs after the locate pointer key is pressed.
Closing as a dupe of 125618, will commit this patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 125618 ***