Using two mice
It seems as though it should be possible to use Gimp with two mice (or similar devices) to some advantage, using them to control different tools, using different settings. With AlwaysCore and the Xinput extended devices disabled (probably a common setup) you get what you'd expect - more physical devices sharing the same physical pointer and Gimp tools. Of course, this isn't really using two mice effectively. However with the extended device enabled, Gimp's behaviour (or is this GTK+ / XFree behaviour?) breaks down. Gimp can no longer properly detect the core cursor (you can't draw with it) and the additional mouse seems to always generate mouse down events at the origin, making it quite unusable. I started investigating this before, but didn't have a permanent setup where I could reproduce it. Now I do, so if anyone has any pointers or advice I'd appreciate it. Nick.
win32 install problem
Hello, I recently got a friend of mine to try Gimp for Windows (she doesn't have Linux yet, but wants to try that as well :). She installed the file from gimp.org/win32, and then replaced gimp.exe with the new gimp.exe from the update. However, upon starting gimp (which worked ok at first) she now gets the following sequence of screens: http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina1.jpg http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina2.jpg http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina3.jpg Any ideas? Lourens
Re: win32 install problem
Well, she reinstalled everything, then replaced gimp.exe with gimp.exe before running it the first time and poof, it works. Perhaps something to put on the download page, prevent people from trying it out while the second file is downloading, apparently this doesn't work. Lourens Lourens Veen wrote: Hello, I recently got a friend of mine to try Gimp for Windows (she doesn't have Linux yet, but wants to try that as well :). She installed the file from gimp.org/win32, and then replaced gimp.exe with the new gimp.exe from the update. However, upon starting gimp (which worked ok at first) she now gets the following sequence of screens: http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina1.jpg http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina2.jpg http://nova.student.utwente.nl/gimp/pagina3.jpg Any ideas? Lourens
Re: Using two mice
Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems as though it should be possible to use Gimp with two mice (or similar devices) to some advantage, using them to control different tools, using different settings. With AlwaysCore and the Xinput extended devices disabled (probably a common setup) you get what you'd expect - more physical devices sharing the same physical pointer and Gimp tools. Of course, this isn't really using two mice effectively. However with the extended device enabled, Gimp's behaviour (or is this GTK+ / XFree behaviour?) breaks down. Gimp can no longer properly detect the core cursor (you can't draw with it) and the additional mouse seems to always generate mouse down events at the origin, making it quite unusable. I started investigating this before, but didn't have a permanent setup where I could reproduce it. Now I do, so if anyone has any pointers or advice I'd appreciate it. Hm, I cannot say anything about two mice but I can confirm that generating events with two input devices works fine in the gdisp_shell. Although I write with my left hand, i'm used to have the mouse right of the keyboard, so my left hand is free for the tablet :) I have the mouse configured to generate core events and my wacom tablet _not_ generating core events and set to "window" mode. hope this helps a bit... ciao, --Mitch
