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

[Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet gmail com>]

I'm not sure why, but you get a message "select source image first."

Cliff

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 1:26 PM Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list <
gimp-user-list gnome org> wrote:

> Em 16/10/2021 21:14, Liam R E Quin escreveu:
> > On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 20:45 -0300, Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list
> > wrote:
> > > What happened to gimp "clone" tool?? It stopped working for me.
> > Most likely is that you have a selection - almost all operations in
> > GIMP happen inside the selection, to give control. So, try, edit/select
> > none, maybe?
>
> This is surely not the case. There is not selection there. The
> yellow+black image border that we see in the video, means it is not
> selected.
>
> Anyway, i tried to select all the image (ctrl+a) and repeating the
> cloning steps i described. Nothing. Selecting "none" again
> (ctrl+shift+a) and repeating again... nothing either.
>
>
> > > If possible, I want to install a previous version of Gimp,
> > > independently
> > > of the current one: separate settings, all needed files, so i can run
> > > both at the same time, without any conflict. Yes, it can be from
> > > source.
> > If you're going to do that, install the most recent instead!
>
> Can you, or anyone here, help me here? I tried to find clear steps for
> that, and did not find. Something like:
>
> 1. download and extract source anywhere
>
> 2. run './configure' with arguments [?AAA?], [?BBB?], [?CCC?], [?DDD?]
> to change install dir, user configuration dir (and possibly other things
> i do not imagine).
>
> 3. run 'make'
>
> 4. 'make install'
>
> 5. Done!
>
> Smaller, but if possible, really great: if it can have a different
> shortcut installed with step 4, perfect. Else, just making it not
> breaking the current Debian one, and i check which is the new binary,
> and manually create a shortcut for it - this is known and easy.
>
> Thank you
>
>
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