So, this summer, I started noticing that the cap of the E key of my keyboard was getting loose. By September it would come off regularly and was a PITA.

So I ended up on the Lenovo site looking for spare parts. Fresh new AZERTY keyboard, 93€. Ordered, received, and doh! wrong AZERTY. Ask for a return, order the good AZERTY, and receive it.

Open the PC, remove the old keyboard and one of the connectors seems a bit stubborn. I eventually disconnect the keyboard. Ready to put the new one back, and doh! in fact I had broken the stubborn connector. So the PC is dead... well not quite since it will boot with a USB keyboard attached. At least I can also return the 2nd keyboard.

Not too much a problem as long as I keep the PC home, but that makes it hard to move, so I will have to find a new PC. That PC is 4 years old and heavily used so fairly worn out anyway and that won't be such a loss. So I go back to the Lenovo site for some additional shopping, and find my dream PC (60€ off since I don't want windows on it)

The PC is eventually delivered (straight from China) and now the question is what I put on it. Not too happy with Ubuntu recently with the snap-for-everything trend so I try a Debian. Unfortunately the new PC is using very recent components that aren't well supported on a pure Debian, so booting, yes, graphics, perhaps, and network, nope.

So that's back to Kubuntu, because the PC is Ubuntu-certified. And I have to say, that works. Everything is fine (even though I installed 24.04 while the certification is for 22.04). I even manage to find most of my favorite apps a DEB packages, and even in 24.04, some apps are still .DEB.

Now for the end-of-level boss: Gimp 2.10 non-snap, non-flatpak, non-AppImage, with Python support. On My old PC it is a self-compiled thing but at that point I don't want to recompile it on the new system. So, I transplant the Python 2.7 runtime from the old one, start  Gimp, get a few complaints about missing libs, import these as well, restart, re-complaints, re-import some more, and after a couple of hours I eventually succeed and see one of my scripts started with a parameter dialog.

Time for a beer. Cheers!

Hi, I am running Gimp 2.10.38 on a PC running UBUNTU 24.04. Gimp is on a SSD with the other apps and my photographs are on a 2Tb HD with other data. When I try to open a photograph in Gimp, it recognises it but says "Reading permission denied" I can open the file which is a jpg in other programmes with no problem. I put one of the photographs on to a USB stick and checked the properties which included permission for read and write. I tried to get Gimp to read it but got the same response. I tried the USB stick on another computer running Windows 10 and Gimp on that PC accepted the file with no problem. What am I missing here ?
Ron.

I have a Galaxy Book 3 - 360 with an Spen, but when I use Gimp (the latest stable version) I can tap but not swipe (function required to draw) it's the only application in which this happens. I have the Spen in the "enter devices" and I have "Screen" selected

The first screenshot shows its maximum size and the second its minimum. How do I change the limits on the size that it can take please?

   

   

Hi all,

What will be an easy way converting digitized negative images to positive images?

Steps performed by me creating digitized negative images on films

1. Use a 12" tablet as light box
2. Mount the film on film holder
3. Place the film holder on top of the tablet
4. Take photos with a mobile phone camera mounted on a tripod

I have no problem taking digitized negative images from films.  But what will be an easy way converting them to quality positive images?

I haver tried;

1. import negative image to GIMP
2. Color -> Invert

It converts it to positive image but quality is not good.

Please help or advising me the reliable method?  Thanks

Regards

Hi:

GIMP 2.10.34 on Linux Mint

I opened 8 ~16Mpx photo images as layers. I first tried 8 PNG (~80MB each) but the XCF file was huge (919MB) so I exported the photos from darktable as JXL (~4MB each) and the XCF was still huge (925MB), both XCF saved with the higher compression option.

Photoshop has a "Place Linked" option which I presume doesn't copy the placed files into the working file, presumably creating a much smaller saved copy of the working file. (I have PS at work but I haven't explored this option so I'm guessing).

Is there any way to create a layered XCF file that isn't so huge?

Hi,

I have an image containing several white blobs on a black background. Using python fu, I was wondering the fastest and easiest way to select a single pixel from each of these white blobs (it doesn't have to be the center of each blob). I'm working with Gimp 3.0. Thanks in advance!

As per title. Kind of lost track, and DDG sends me to a PPA (mati75/gimp30) that isn't carrying the latest and greatest. Is there a PPA with 3.0 RC1? And one with GMIC?

   

Story is from here.

I'm a fan of how wildlife interacts with humans. A few weeks ago I woke up and went outside to put my boots on but they were gone. I remember about 10 years ago the same thing happened. I found each boot in different directions about 30 to 40 metres from the house. This time I found the boots about 5 metres apart and 20 or 30 metres from the house. I suspect Tasmanian devils, they are probably attracted to the leather but soon lose interest in eating a pair of old boots.

Hi,

Apologies if this question's already been asked, but I want to dock the main toolbox - containing the buttons Move, Select, Free Select, Fuzzy Select, Crop Tool, Rotate Tool, Warp Transform, etc. - horizontally and directly beneath the File Menu, instead of vertically to the left side. How do I do that?

Thanks in advance!