06-02-2022, 01:27 PM (This post was last modified: 06-02-2022, 02:05 PM by Stephen Liu.)
(06-02-2022, 10:36 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Not changed anything ?
Quote:Absolutely sure. This Ubuntu 22.04 VM was specifically created for testing GIMP
The VirtualBox fairy maybe
Gimp is missing. Did you revert the VM ?
This in my VM with Gimp uninstalled.
Go install gimp again
Code:
sudo apt install gimp
Performed following steps;
$ sudo apt install gimp
$ cd Downloads/
$ ./gimp-mathmap-22-04jammy.AppImage
Code:
Gtk-Message: 21:08:00.332: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Exhausted all available authentication mechanisms (tried: EXTERNAL) (available: EXTERNAL)
gui_dbus_name_lost: connection to the bus cannot be established.
(gimp:4234): IBUS-WARNING **: 21:08:03.660: Unable to connect to ibus: Exhausted all available authentication mechanisms (tried: EXTERNAL) (available: EXTERNAL)
Now GIMP starts.
Sorry, I don't follow "Did you revert the VM ?"
This VM was cloned on an Ubuntu 22.04 VM which was built on ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso. The latter is a native/original Ubuntu 22.04 VM and I won't carry tests on it, except running configuration, update/upgrade and installing Guest Additions. Then I'll clone Ubuntu-22.04 VMs for carrying tests.
Regards
Edit
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Hi Tas_mania,
Sorry, left-clicking gimp-mathmap-22-04jammy.AppImage can't start GIMP
Hi Rich,
I have following OSs running :-
1)
Ubuntu20.04, LinuxMint, Fedora, Windows10 Guests of KVM
2)
Ubuntu20.04, Ubuntu22.04, Windows10, Windows11, MX21_KDE(digiKam 7.1.0 running), Gentoo VMs of VirtualBox
3)
Ubuntu20.04 running on bare-metal SSD
4)
Windows10 and Windows11 running on bare-metal SSDs
Please advise which OS will be most suitable for running GIMP ?
Tas_mania only comes here occasionally. He uses a Xfce DE (I think). Not all linux keybindings are the same, go back to using "run" or a double click seems to work.
Quote:Please advise which OS will be most suitable for running GIMP ?
Difficult, since it is a personal choice. Like you I try out many types in VM's **but** since 2004 I have used only 3 linux distributions Mepis / PClinuxOS / Kubuntu All of those KDE. So I am biased towards KDE.
All those you listed will run Gimp, one version or another. It then comes down to your ability to manage the versions.
Windows is probably the easiest for the non-technical. Gimp is the latest version, comes with an installer, most of the extra plugins easy to install and work.
When it comes to linux, latest is not always the most productive. I have two laptops:
1. Old laptop runs Kubuntu 18.04, Gimp 2.10.30 from PPA I find this most productive of the two.
2. New laptop runs Kubuntu 20.04, Gimp 2.10.30 from PPA, I had to install gimp-python myself, some old applications missing. Needed a bit of work to get it the way I want.
3. **NO** desire to update to 'buntu 22.04
Tas_mania only comes here occasionally. He uses a Xfce DE (I think). Not all linux keybindings are the same, go back to using "run" or a double click seems to work.
Quote:Noted and thanks
Quote:
Quote:Please advise which OS will be most suitable for running GIMP ?
Difficult, since it is a personal choice. Like you I try out many types in VM's **but** since 2004 I have used only 3 linux distributions Mepis / PClinuxOS / Kubuntu All of those KDE. So I am biased towards KDE.
All those you listed will run Gimp, one version or another. It then comes down to your ability to manage the versions.
Windows is probably the easiest for the non-technical. Gimp is the latest version, comes with an installer, most of the extra plugins easy to install and work.
When it comes to linux, latest is not always the most productive. I have two laptops:
1. Old laptop runs Kubuntu 18.04, Gimp 2.10.30 from PPA I find this most productive of the two.
2. New laptop runs Kubuntu 20.04, Gimp 2.10.30 from PPA, I had to install gimp-python myself, some old applications missing. Needed a bit of work to get it the way I want.
3. **NO** desire to update to 'buntu 22.04
up to you what you use.
OK, your advice noted and thanks.
I'll install GIMP on Ubuntu 20.04, running on bare-metal SSD. I'm now going to install "Scrcpy" on this harddrive to remote control the smartphone shooting photos and negatives.
The samrtphone will be connected to the PC via USB cable. This kind of connection serves twin purposes, first data transfer from smartphone to PC and secondly charging the smartphone while shooting. All positive/negatives images can be directly download and stored in PC.
If successful it will start a new era in scanning Photos, film negatives, documents etc. All of us have a smartphone. The scanning speed on a smartphone is much faster than on a desktop scanner.
A top quality scanning device, DSLR camera/Smartphone/Desktop scanner, can't change the quality of the photos and film negatives. Post-editing can't be avoided.
After installing "scrcpy" on Ubuntu 20.04 PC and enabling USB debugging on smartphone, now I can remote-shoot on PC. Wonderful!!! Images can be download to PC.
Please refer to the screenshot attached
After solving the problem to install GIMP on Ubuntu 20.04 PC, I'll start my adventure scanning photos and negatives on smartphone. Next week I'll purchase a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 256G Android phone to do the job. Its camera is better.
Some minor problem - re to label the image number according to my way instead of being assigned automatically by the smartphone. There are >1,000 negatives to scan. I expect to know from which folders they come for easy reference.
