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Bug 607856 - The selection "ants" sometimes disappear (and "show selection" doesn't bring it back)
The selection "ants" sometimes disappear (and "show selection" doesn't bring ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595678
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.6.7
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
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Reported: 2010-01-23 12:23 UTC by tendays-kde
Modified: 2010-02-01 14:12 UTC
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Description tendays-kde 2010-01-23 12:23:15 UTC
Problem Description: Every now and then (after a few minutes of use but not systematically) the selection "ants" disappear as if I had unset the "view/show selection" option (but I haven't). The "show selection" option is still checked, and unchecking and checking it back on doesn't help.

Workaround: The only way I found to have the selection visible again is to restart gimp (I set the severity to "minor" because restarting gimp fixes the issue until next time it breaks).

System: I'm using kubuntu 9.10, and work extensively with a wacom tabet, if that is relevant.
Googling brought up a similar report that attributed this to a "gtk-qt-engine" but running "locate gtk-qt-engine" or "dpkg-query -l | grep gtk-qt-engine" return nothing.

Steps to reproduce the problem: I realise this report is not very helpful as I have not yet found a reproducible way to cause the problem but would like to know if this is a known bug and/or what I could do to further diagnose the problem. It do lots of copy paste in and between images and the problem tends to happen around that time.

I will update this report in case I find a way to reliably reproduce the problem.

Thank you
Comment 1 Martin Nordholts 2010-01-23 12:25:31 UTC
Hi and thanks for the bug report! Yes please, let us know when you have a step-by-step because before that there is not much we can do.
Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2010-01-31 19:59:52 UTC
Duplicate of bug #595678 ?!
Comment 3 tendays-kde 2010-02-01 14:12:33 UTC
Oh yes it seems to be. I guess I didn't search with the right keywords, sorry. (Still haven't found a reliable way to reproduce, though)
Comment 4 tendays-kde 2010-02-01 14:12:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 595678 ***