[Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-03 Thread Paul North
At the risk of asking what is probably THE most obvious question of the year, here goes: I downloaded and installed GimpShop. I'm running Mac OS-X version 10.4.5. I also downloaded X11user.pkg from Apple and attempted to install it. However, during the install, I got a message stating You

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-03 Thread Axel Wernicke
Am 03.03.2006 um 23:36 schrieb Paul North: At the risk of asking what is probably THE most obvious question of the year, here goes: I downloaded and installed GimpShop. I'm running Mac OS-X version 10.4.5. I also downloaded X11user.pkg from Apple and attempted to install it. However,

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-03 Thread Paul North
Thanks, Robert. I'll have to install X11 from the Tiger DVD. I've already discovered that people are a bit sensitive about Gimpshop. Another Gimp-user poster wrote: I appreciate your help. Gimpshop is my first foray into the world of Gimp. I'm hoping to use it in place of an aging version

[Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
Afternoon All A newbie to Gimp but wanted to give it a go as I'd heard so many good things about it. Found a basic problem that could stop me using it - but I'm sure it's solvable. I'm running Gimp through X11 on a Mac (running OSX 10.4.5). I keep all my work on a remote file server but

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Tom Williams
Ross Brown wrote: Afternoon All A newbie to Gimp but wanted to give it a go as I'd heard so many good things about it. Found a basic problem that could stop me using it - but I'm sure it's solvable. I'm running Gimp through X11 on a Mac (running OSX 10.4.5). I keep all my work on a

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
Sorry, newbies are not allowed here. Right, I'll take my Mac and wipe my tears then... Just kidding.. :) Thank God for that! Is the problem the mounted drive doesn't appear in the Open dialog or that it does appear and you can't open it? The mounted drive doesn't appear in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Axel Wernicke
Am 01.03.2006 um 20:02 schrieb Ross Brown: Sorry, newbies are not allowed here. Right, I'll take my Mac and wipe my tears then... Just kidding.. :) Thank God for that! Yeah, you should be - not everybody has as much luck as you did ;) Is the problem the mounted drive doesn't

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
so where did you search? The right place would be /Volumes/ nameOfTheMountedVolume. If you can't navigate to that place for some reason you can enter the path directly to the text field in the GIMP open file dialog. Aha! (sort of). Found it but it wasn't *that* simple... Open | Filesystem

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:24 +, Ross Brown wrote: Afternoon All A newbie to Gimp but wanted to give it a go as I'd heard so many good things about it. Found a basic problem that could stop me using it - but I'm sure it's solvable. I'm running Gimp through X11 on a Mac (running