GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 417625
Tools leave graphical artifacts..
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:25:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: I am editing some pictures I took with a digital camera. Removing background and replacing it with a solid color. I was doing some coloring with the Pencil tool and as I drag my mouse around the screen it would leave a trail. I did not have the button pressed down. As I write this now, I switched back to the program and the trail is not there, but moving my mouse in the graphic's window again will make trails. It does not only do this with the Pencil. It is doing it with the Paintbrush, Eraser, Airbrush, Smudge, Dodge/Burn, and maybe others. It's annoying because I can't always see what I am working on because the trails are in my way. To get rid of them I have to minimize the window, then re-open it.. I guess Windows or GIMP redraws the screen so it's correct, but upon moving my mouse makes more trails. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open graphic. 2. Select one of the tools I mentioned. 3. Move mouse around. Actual results: Mouse trails. Expected results: Nothing! It should only draw when I press the mouse button. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: My system information: Windows XP 1GB memory ATI 32MB Rage 128 (yeah yeah I know.. this is at work) I am not sure if this bug was submitted already or if it happens to everyone. I briefly looked through existing bugs, but could not find something.
What operating system are you using? What graphics card drivers? This is almost certainly a bug in your graphics card driver.
The OS is reported as "Windows XP" in the comment. I suspect that this is due to an old ATI driver that should be updated. I have seen similar reports of tools leaving "trails" on the image and so far all of them could be resolved by updating the graphics card driver (usually from ATI or Nvidia). This bug will probably have to be closed as NOTGNOME unless the reporter can provide more information and confirm that he is running the latest driver for his graphics card.
OK, I don't think we even have to leave this bug open because I found a duplicate that mentions the same problem with Windows XP and an ATI Rage 128 graphics card. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 365731 ***
Yes. Please close this comment a graphics card driver update fixed it. I thought I had the latest driver, but what had happened is I had Windows Update hide that so it didn't show up again. Thanks for all the help and the great program.
I think I'm going to just see if I can get a different graphics card. The problem came back. It worked yesterday after the new driver install, but now it's doing the same thing again.