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Bug 705787 - Selection line disappearing
Selection line disappearing
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 678055
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.8.6
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
: 705788 705789 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-08-11 10:28 UTC by Alberto Ferrante
Modified: 2013-10-30 21:23 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alberto Ferrante 2013-08-11 10:28:28 UTC 
After some use, but quite often, the dotted line that shows a selection becomes invisible, even while doing a selection. The selection is still there and it is still possible to operate on it (e.g., copy & paste), just it is not possible to see it. The only way to solve the problem and to restart viewing the selection line is to restart GIMP.
Comment 1 Max Mustermann 2013-08-11 11:09:38 UTC 
*** Bug 705789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Max Mustermann 2013-08-11 11:09:58 UTC 
*** Bug 705788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Max Mustermann 2013-08-11 11:11:13 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this.
Is this the same like bug #678055?
Your answer within 6 weeks is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Comment 4 Alberto Ferrante 2013-08-11 12:31:24 UTC 
Thanks for the answer and sorry for the multiple reports: Bugzilla hanged multiple times while trying to submit the bug!

It looks like the bug that I reported is the same as #678055. I use a Wacom Bamboo too. Unfortunately, though, I cannot recognize any specific action that triggers the bug (certainly not the ones described in the aforementioned bug), it just happens from time to time. Actually, my impression was that the bug was fixed in 2.8.4 and it reappeared in 2.8.6 since I haven't experienced it in the last weeks until upgrading to 2.8.6. Most of the times I need to restart GIMP to have the selection visible again; just reopening the image does not help.
Comment 5 Max Mustermann 2013-08-11 12:45:12 UTC 
Thank you for your quick answer. As it seems, they're not duplicates of each other. However I mark them as related bugs as reminder. 
If the error occurs again for you and you can reproduce it by intention, please describe here what you did. Thank you in advance.
Comment 6 Michael Schumacher 2013-10-28 18:45:55 UTC 
We have no idea why this happens at all (or rather, what triggers it, the actual disappearance is a side-effect of an intentional action). So I wouldn't track this as a different bug.
Comment 7 Alberto Ferrante 2013-10-30 20:52:28 UTC 
OK, and lately, not only I could not reproduce the bug, it also looks to be disappeared...
Comment 8 Michael Natterer 2013-10-30 21:23:22 UTC 
As mentioned in comment 4, this is most likely a duplicate of bug 678055.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678055 ***