Re: [Gimp-user] Recurring mouse problem in GIMP 2.8.22

[Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:48 PM Techno <techno6 glib com> wrote:

> On 2021-07-15 22:44, Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > Although you say this only happens in GIMP, I would expect to have seen
> > many more complaints in the community if it was a GIMP (only) problem. I
> > would not give up on looking outside GIMP for the issue. It may be a
> > conflict between GIMP and some other software, running at the same time
> as
> > GIMP. eg Assistive technology software. Can you try with everything else
> > stopped?
>
> Thanks for that suggestion. I did that, and with nothing else loaded
> GIMP worked okay with the mouse, which it has done before. So I began
> loading up applications one at a time. It worked okay with one
> application after another loaded, and then I loaded up WordPerfect X5,
> which I have to use constantly. Bang! the mouse problem manifested itself.
>
> To some slight degree I can probably leave WordPerfect X5 off for a
> while as I work in GIMP, but I need to work with both at once a lot of
> the time.
>
> Now I'll note that GIMP 2.8 and WordPerfect X5 had been working together
> just fine for years. I have been suspecting all along that some Windows
> 10 "update" had caused the problem. I think that I might have put
> WordPerfect X5 into some compatibility mode at some point after I'd had
> some crashes of that software, again after years of no problems. I am
> wondering it I should risk crashes by undoing compatibility mode for
> WordPerfect X5, if that's even possible, or if I should try some sort of
> compatibility fix for GIMP.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> That's a shame. If you could narrow it down to a particular setting, it
might be worth reporting an issue to WP and/or GIMP.

I remember using WP many years ago, and I liked it. I moved to MS Word
because that was the corporate standard and hated it. Corruptions of
documents happened on a daily basis, and I kept a backup copy of normal.dot
because it was corrupted on a regular basis. These days I use LibreOffice
Writer and I'm happy with it. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to sell you
on LO Writer!

Cliff

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