GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 499603
Marching ants not appearing when making selections.
Last modified: 2008-10-30 20:05:35 UTC
Please describe the problem: Marching ants do not appear after commiting a selection or creating a selection from a path. This is an intermitent problem. Most of the time the program works as it should, but time to time it doesn't. When it happens, you have not choice other than restart GIMP, because there is no way to make the marching ants back. Notice that this is unrelated to CTRL+t The selection is actually performed, but the marching ants aren't displayed. The result is the same of using CTRL+t to toggle the visibility of the marching ants, but without the posibility to make them re-appear. If you save the xcf file once it happens, then close and restart GIMP, the selection and the marching ants appear again. Steps to reproduce: I haven't found a way to reproduce it yet. The bug may appear when working with simple selections (a rectangular marquee) or path to selection conversions. Actual results: Once the problem appears, the marching ants aren't displayed anymore until you restart gimp. Expected results: Does this happen every time? No. But it seems to be related with large images with layers. I've never experienced this problem when working with small images for the web, for instance. Other information:
What window manager are you using? This is most likely a problem of your window manager not reporting the window visibility correctly.
Oh, sorry for the lack of information. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 7.10 with Gnome. I had the same problem with Ubuntu 7.04 Computer specs: AMD Athlon X2 4200 - 3GB Ram - nVidia card with proprietary drivers, desktop effects deactivated. As I said before, this is an intermitent problem and if I restart gimp the marching ants appear. It doesn't look like a WM problem.
You still didn't tell us what window manager you are using. And yes, this is likely a window manager problem. Exactly because restarting GIMP fixes the problem for you. There is code that avoids animating the marching ants when the window is not visible. If your window manager sends wrong window state information, then GIMP might assume that there is no need to draw anything.
Standard Gnome (Metacity and GTK). If this information isn't enough please let me know what else should I add.
We need a description on how to reliably reproduce the problem then.
Hasn't there been a related bug - including a fix - recently?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 505758 ***