On 02/06/2013 01:55 PM, Akkana Peck wrote: > Steve Kinney writes: >> The GIMP's tear-off menus do not seem to work on Linux platforms. > [ ... ] >> I could not find a "real fix" for this, I did see a practical work >> around: Hit the space bar after clicking on the desired command, >> and viola, the command is executed. > > Thank you! I've really missed the tear-offs -- they haven't worked > for me since 2.6 came out -- and that will help.
Aha! Now at least I know it's not my insanity - or ignorance - making this happen. > Are you on Ubuntu? A discussion on #gimp a few weeks ago suggested > that it was a problem with Ubuntu's GTK patches. And indeed, when I > tried it on a non-Ubuntu system, tear-offs worked fine. They've > failed for me on at least three different Ubuntu releases, maybe as > many as five. Though it works for Ofnuts on Kubuntu, so it's not > ALL Ubuntus ... I haven't had a chance since the discussion to try > building a vanilla GTK on my Pangolin system to see if that cures > the problem. I am using Mint with Cinnamon, which is a fork of Gnome 3 with Gnome 2 style desktop features. Mint 14 is built on top of Ubuntu Quantal, so in effect it is a Ubuntu system. Synaptic says I have libgtk-3-0 version 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2 from the Quantal repo on board. Odd thing is, the tear off menus in Bluefish work normally. > Anyway, broken tear-offs are super annoying, have been a problem for > years, and although I still wish for a real fix, your workaround is > very helpful. Thanks! I saw the spacebar trick in a response to an old help forum thread about the broken tear off menus. It's nice to have tear off menus back. :o) Steve _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
