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Bug 656436 - Drawing onto a layer produces gimp_display_shell_pointer_grab: gdk_pointer_grab failed with status 1
Drawing onto a layer produces gimp_display_shell_pointer_grab: gdk_pointer_gr...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 645315
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.7.2
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-13 02:32 UTC by Sven-Hendrik Haase
Modified: 2011-10-26 13:30 UTC
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Description Sven-Hendrik Haase 2011-08-13 02:32:23 UTC 
Whenever I draw onto a layer, I get 
gimp_display_shell_pointer_grab: gdk_pointer_grab failed with status 1
on my terminal and Gimp freezes. This makes Gimp totally unusable for me.

I'm using Arch Linux x86_64. 2.7.1 works fine. Distro's bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23850

I've tested moving my Gimp config to no avail. My gtk is version 2.24.5.
Comment 1 Sven-Hendrik Haase 2011-08-13 07:25:19 UTC 
This seems to be an issue with KDE/kwin. It works fine in a plain X server.
Comment 2 Matteo 'Peach' Pescarin 2011-08-23 14:14:33 UTC 
possibly related to 645315,
see if killing xscreensaver 'solves' the problem
Comment 3 Michiel Brentjens 2011-09-11 21:51:28 UTC 
I run Gimp 2.7.3 on Ubuntu 11.04 under the XFCE desktop. Killing xscreensaver did indeed solve this problem for me.
Comment 4 Sven-Hendrik Haase 2011-09-12 02:45:26 UTC 
Seems magically resolved in 2.7.3 despite having no relevant changes. People on Arch tracker seem to still report problems, though. If xsreensaver is the cause, then this bug should still be fixed.
Comment 5 Michael Natterer 2011-10-26 13:30:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 645315 ***