Select Color picker tool and in Tool Options dockable dialogue toggle Set_foreground_color instead of Pick_only. Now when you use eyedropper from Change_Foreground_Color dialog window it will change foreground color to the one you picked. This will help you restore your workflow til the bug is fixed. Francois wrote > >>I suspect that Francesco had the same problem I did. In the color picker >>dialog box, there is an icon, about 2/3 of the way from the top, which >>when one hovers the mouse cursor over the icon, reveals the context help >>that one can select a color from anywhere in the screen. When one's >>cursor is located over a GIMP window, this is true, one can select a >>color; when the cursor is over a part of the screen that is not part of >>a GIMP window, the cursor reverts from the eyedropper shape to the >>normal cursor shape, and in my experience, one was not able to select a >>color from any part of the screen that was not a GIMP related window. > > Yes, this is the problem I'm having as well. It's definitely a bug. > > -- > TracyF (via gimpusers.com) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@ > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >
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