Re: [Gimp-user] Misc RC (noob) problems

[Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer fsfe org>]

Madeleine Fisher <animatrix1490 gmail com> writes:

> I just downloaded the new RC, and it works really well, but I have a problem--when I use
> my tablet and it goes off the screen, the pressure settings will suddenly switch off. Is
> that something that I can fix? Or will it work better in future releases? Some with the
> free-move (or whatever)--when I move the view around sometimes I have to minimize the
> whole GIMP to get it to refresh properly.

Hmm, this seems like something for the devs … If you feel like
contributing a bug report, http://www.gimp.org/bugs/ has some info;
there's also the gimp developer list at
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel 

> Also, just if anybody has any good advice: sometimes when I hit the hotkeys I hit my
> mousepad, too (on my laptop), and GIMP will sporadically spaz between the "default"
> settings and the one's I've put on my tablet to draw with at the current moment. I
> wouldn't ask for help, but it continues for minutes afterward sometimes. It makes it
> difficult to draw a line and is just kind of annoying. Any thoughts?

If it were me, I would run a program that turns on/off the mousepad with
a global hotkey (so I could press e.g. F12 or something to toggle it).
Depends on your system how easy it is to find such a program though …

-Kevin