Less than an hour after sending the message below, I learned from
DistroWatch that MX18 Beta 1 is now available, offering GIMP 2.10,
Hopefully this will eventually provide a stable solution to my problem.
However I would still be interested to hear any responses to my original
question.
Basil Fernie
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Since the spotlight is on GIMP, I make bold to put up a question which
perhaps I will have to redirect to another forum:
I'm using/trying to use GIMP 2.8.2 under MX17.1 (I do use Lubuntu a lot
too! but I'm trying to nurture a young MX user) and finding one problem:
I cannot resize the image size from the screen original size to print at
a different size even when following the explicit directions in the GIMP
manual. Do any of the Lubuntu users of GIMP 2.8.x find this problem?
The obvious work-around, to install GIMP 2.10.8 to MX17.1, fails
because, it seems, this upgrade is disallowed by the software
installation facility in MX17.1. The /other/ obvious workaround, to do
the GIMP work on Lubuntu 18.10, has environmental and upstream
implications which I don't really want to spend time on.
So, any quick comments from the Lubuntu experience with resizing GIMP
images for printed images?
Basil Fernie
On 03/12/18 23:10, Mark F wrote:
I wanted to post back here with an update (after I posted the straces
to the bug report[1] for PCManFM and GIMP 2.10.8 crashing).
User @Janos (msg #54) said GIMP 2.8.x was crashing for him (it was
fine for me the whole time PCManFM was crashing in the previous
version of Lubuntu, which I strongly believe was 17.04). He switched
to a PPA-served apt package of GIMP (not the "flatpack" version GIMP
officially(?) serves. He said his GIMP crashes went away. (Whereas, my
GIMP crashes began with 2.10.x, which I installed from flatpack.).
So, I uninstalled my flatpack 2.10.8, and setup the PPA[2] and that
"apt-get install" version of GIMP (still 2.10.8) loads much faster. I
also noticed it doesn't cause the *profuse* PCManFM logging (when I
strace PCManFM). That GIMP hasn't crashed yet.
I really believe there's something about the official(?) flatpack GIMP
that entangles itself with PCManFM's crashing behavior (for those
experiencing it). The PCManFM strace logging was phenomenal using the
flatpack GIMP. Twenty-one seconds of logging was over 60mb. When I
switched to the PPA package of GIMP, the logging virtually stopped
(when GIMP was the active window).
I just wanted to give that update here in case anyone else is having
that issue.
[The PCManFM crash isn't very bad for me. I don't mind restarting
PCManFM every few days. But, that GIMP crashing was *painful*. It
would crash 3-4 times while editing an image. Sometimes after 10-15
minutes of getting the colors "just right." I don't think I could live
with that for too long.]
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1782984
[2] sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gimp
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