Re: [Gimp-user] Debian 11, updated, Gimp 2.10.22 - bad clone tool

[Dedeco Balaco <dedeco balaco yahoo com>]

Em 21/10/2021 17:56, Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list escreveu:
> Em 21/10/2021 17:19, Liam R. E. Quin escreveu:
> > On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 20:12 -0300, Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list
> > wrote:
> > > The configure script was and is here.
> > The problem  is that you must first build and install babl, then gegl,
> > and, as  the error message says, you must set PKG_CONFIG_PATH (a shell
> > variable):
> >
> > > configure: error: Package requirements (babl >= 0.0.22) were not met:
> > > No package 'babl' found
> > >
> > > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> > To repeat:
> >
> > > > To build GIMP  2.10.28 on an older Debian Linux, you will need to
> > > > start
> > > > with building the following:
> > > > libmypaint (the 1.3 branch)
> > > > libgtk+2, libgdk2, glib from gnome, using jhbuild
> > > > babl (with meson; i'm not sure autoconf is still supported for babl
> > > > and gegl)
> > > > gegl
> > > > Install ALL of these into a custom prefix 
> > However, this will not fix the clone tool and neither  would installing
> > an older version.
> > > Since one or two days ago, there is a question i have been waiting an
> > > answer, in this list: is the behaviour change i describe in my
> > > problem possible to achieve with normal changes in 2.10.22 settings?
> > No but it is possible to make it happen using the gnome or  MATE
> > accessibility settings.
> >
> > > I have some accessibility tools actived for me. To see where the
> > > mouse
> > > pointer is, i (press and) _release_ the ctrl key,
> > Try turning it off, at least temporarily, and see if that fixes gimp's
> > clone for you. It did  for me. I think it's  a  bug in the gnome
> > accessibility toolkit.
> You found the problem.    (:    If i disable the "show me mouse cursor"
> checkbox, gimp clone immediately works as documented. No restart, no
> closed window, nothing. Just check and uncheck it (the mouse
> accessibility window apply changes instantly). And no close+open gimp
> either.
>
> And this problem was inserted with the update i did, a few weeks ago,
> from Debian 9 to Debian 11. I did not change these settings together
> with the update, and i used gimp normally, before.
>
> A bug where? Well, firefox and vivaldi use "ctrl+click" too, and they do
> it now as they did before.
>
> So, for now, i will accept this reality: gimp clone tool is different
> for me. But i will use it as usual, anyway. Nothing lost.

I imagined an answer would happen to explain everything, clarifying all
I have discovered and described in these last paragraphs above.