The answers need to come from the programmers. - I post observations (not solutions) from my own experience. -- 1: Some software allows choosing of the amount of ram that it will access. 2: Some software will only access a certain amount of ram regardless of the amount that you have available. --- I've had this same issue with Gimp and other software through several versions of windows (currently running Gimp 2.8 on Windows 10 with ample ram) - Gimp will lock up at a certain point and the only solution is to restart windows. Then Gimp will carry on normally. The best thing to do is to save often... very often. - - - QUESTIONS = A: Can I specify the amount of Ram that will be accessed by Gimp? If so, how? (I haven't seen this relating to any cut/paste operations or the move tool) B: Can any Gimp code-writers, programmers offer help or solutions?
*Nate Owens* www.nateowens.com nateowen...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Ofnuts <ofn...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 06/11/17 04:00, OldPhotog wrote: > >> I have repeatedly had the recent problem in 2.8 on a Windows 10 machine, >> that in >> the midst of editing a photo, the move tool gets selected and "locks," >> preventing any other action whatsoever in GIMP -- nothing I have tried >> releases >> it, and the only way to stop it is to use Task Manager to close the >> application >> altogether. Keyboard shortcuts to close, the X, etc. do not work. >> >> I would truly like to know what is triggering this, whether it is a known >> problem, and what I can do other than press Ctrl+S after every blessed >> edit. I >> have seen some years-old posts from previous versions of some variants of >> this >> but that's all I have found. >> >> > If that happens after a Cut/Paste this is because the active layer is the > "Floating Selection" and there are restrictions on what you can while there > is one. You ha e to either "anchor" it (merge it t its target paste layer > (Ctrl-H) or make it a plain layer ("Layer>To new layer" or Ctrl-Shift-N). > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list