Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

[Gene Heskett <gheskett shentel net>]

On Thursday 21 July 2016 22:28:51 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Thursday 21 July 2016 20:50:29 Akkana Peck wrote:
> > Gene Heskett writes:
> > > Greetings everybody;
> > >
> > > I just went to add some text to some pix I just shot to be
> > > followed by moving the edited copies to my web page.
> > >
> > > But I opened the first one in gimp, clicked on the A to get the
> > > text entry box, and no box appears.
> >
> > Are you clicking on the canvas after clicking on the A? The A just
> > makes the text tool active; you have to click in the canvas to
> > create a new text layer (and set its initial position).
> >
> >         ...Akkana
>
> Clicking on the canvas left no mark on the canvas, nor did it open the
> teeny text editor. And I just did an update, and now it works, and not
> one of the 50+ updates looked to have anything to do with gimp.  And I
> wonder if thats part of the reason I have thinning grey hair and a
> back back, 81 years always sounds like such a worthless excuse.  I
> need to restart tdm-trinity anyway, and synaptic says there is a newer
> api compatible kernel, suggesting I reboot, so I guess its time.
Ok, rebooted, and now I have the text box, but nothing I do to or in it, 
shows up in the image within the image box outline I've pulled out to a 
quite decent size.

Did I miss another memo?

Thanks for the speedy reply, Akkana.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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