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Gimp shows blank black screen when opening image
Stephen_A Offline
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Yesterday, 12:59 AM
Just re-installed Gimp 3.0.6 on Windows 11. Upon opening a jpg Gimp shows a featureless black screen. 
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Right clicking a jpg and choosing 'open with Gimp' produces a similar effect. Any suggestions or help welcome. Thanks.
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Yesterday, 09:01 AM (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 09:05 AM by rich2005.)
(Yesterday, 12:59 AM)Stephen_A Wrote: Just re-installed Gimp 3.0.6 on Windows 11. Upon opening a jpg Gimp shows a featureless black screen. 

Right clicking a jpg and choosing 'open with Gimp' produces a similar effect. Any suggestions or help welcome. Thanks.

Why reinstall ? What was going wrong ? You have been using Gimp 2.10 in the past, did you ever consider renaming :
C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP (Windows) or ~/.config/GIMP (linux) to disable any previous profiles and running Gimp to make a new default. Gimp when installed does try and migrate old settings which is never a good idea.

Looking at your video, frame by frame, cropped to 1660x1000, then probably HD. Goes from click on Open -> white screen -> black screen. No open dialogue. Do you have more than one monitor ?

Settings in Edit preferences.
Window Management -> Open windows on the same monitor they were open before Is that enabled ?
Image Windows -> You have merge menu and title bar enabled. Should be ok but it is a new-ish feature.
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