>Sleepingbeautiie - [email protected] wrote: >>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:14:27 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: >> >>>> And, yeah - that stuff's basically gone away since I've re-installed it >>>> again, but now it says it has to do something with the GIMP shortcut in my >>>> "bin" folder, so I thought 'Oh, okay...' and clicked on the GIMP 2.8 icon >>>> for it to load from there.. but it gave me the same error, the one that I >>>> just mentioned, and it always has something to do with "terminating in an >>>> unusual way", 'thanks' to Runtime. I'm looking through all my folders now, >>>> but there doesn't seem to be a problem. >> >>> Is your Windows set to use 16-bit colour mode? There's a known problem with >>> GTK+ if that's the case - change Windows to 32-bit colours. >> >> How do you do that? I mean, do I go to control panel? I really don't know >> what the problem is, but if it helps I use Windows Vista/desktop.
>Yes; from Windows Vista Control Panel: >- from default view: "Adjust screen resolution" (under the "Appearance >and Personalization" section) or >- from classic view: "Personalization" then "Display Settings" >Either will bring up the "Display Settings" where you can set the colour >depth from the drop-down under "Colors". If you have multiple monitors, >you might need to set it separately for each one. >After click "Apply" or "OK" to apply changes, you'll need to click "Yes" >before the timer expired when prompted for whether to keep the new >settings. If that seems a bit odd, there is a sensible reason - changing >display settings incorrectly can prevent anything from being displayed >at all, making it difficult to change them back, so if the screen does >go blank or scrambled you just need to wait 15 seconds for the timer to >expire and it should go back to how it was before. >Mark. All right, thanks, I'll try that when I get the time; if it doesn't work, I'll come back and see if there's any other kinda solution. -- Sleepingbeautiie (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
