The default setting in the GIMP has a mouse pointer highlighter active. It makes working in GIMP difficult- to the point that it's been mistaken for a bug. I came across this issue before- and disabled the highlighter immediately. Using another computer today, I came across the same issue, but I'd forgotten how I'd fixed it- and it took me a while to find the solution. Eventually I found it on Pimp my GIMP.Go to File>Preferences>Image Windows and untick Show brush outline.
Update: this looks like a Debian Lenny issue: my Debian Squeeze machine doesn't have this problem. Time to update the old laptop I was using when I wrote this post, probably.
This is a bug in your video driver - it can't handle the draw mode of the brush outline.
ReplyDeleteYou can work around the problem by setting the xor-color to white (color-rgb 1.0 1.0 1.0) in gimprc, see http://www.gimp.org/man/gimprc.html
The real fix would be to update your video driver to a version without the bug.
Thanks for the information- as I use the open source driver that comes with Squeeze, I guess I might get an update in a couple of years when Wheezy arrives.
ReplyDeleteOops! I forgot I'm using my old Lenny laptop at the moment- and when I encountered the problem before, I was probably running Lenny on my main computer.
ReplyDeleteSo there may be an update to the video driver available (I won't be able to update this machine to check- but I'll check on my Squeeze machine to see if the issue still exists).