[Gimp-user] Help With OSX El Capitan

[Jollymath <forums gimpusers com>]

> This is probably just GIMP taking a long time to load fonts, which
> does
> happen after up-grading the OS.
> It hasn't actually crashed, even though the window greys-out and OSX
> might
> complain that GIMP is not responding, the font loading is still going
> on
> and you just need to be patient.
> Another user has recently been through the same thing with OSX 10.11
> as
> reported here:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756092
> The real problem is the ridiculous number and size of fonts which are
> being
> included with Windoze and OSX nowadays.
>
> The usual advice given on the forums now is just to start Gimp running
> and
> then leave it alone - don't even touch the keyboard or the mouse, just
> get
> up, walk away and go do something else for at least an hour. (Yes,
> really!)
> When you come back, Gimp will probably be up and running and you will
> then
> have no further problems.
>
> Having said that, we don't actually know how long it does take on OSX
> 10.11. So, if you have the patience, perhaps you could actually keep
> an eye
> on your computer while GIMP is loading the first time (read the
> newspaper
> or something) and hopefully tell us approximately how long it does
> take
> ..is it 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, longer ?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:07 PM, kelly wheelhouse <
> kelly wheelhouse hotmail co uk> wrote:

My 2008 MacBook Pro just loaded up taking about ten minutes to load fonts!

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