08-07-2022, 01:31 AM
(08-06-2022, 11:17 AM)rich2005 Wrote:Looks like I need to upgrade Mint to 21 to make Cinnamon Gimp work with the eyedropper. My workaround is to select the color picker tool and pick my color from the image. It applies the new color to the background color, so I need to swap colors to use my selected color with the pencil. Or swap colors to put the to-be-changed color in the background-position before using the color picker!(08-06-2022, 07:34 AM)nelo Wrote: This is a known bug since 2.10.30 (on MATE systems mainly)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/7645
I thought I had a fix but no.
The bug is still there: Mint 21 / Gimp 2.10.32 from PPA using MATE DE
FG/BG color picker reverts to whatever tool is active. Colour picker tool works (but of course does not pick from the outside the open image)
Changing DE to cinnamon and FG/BG picker works as expected
edit: So far the only work-around I can think of is using the screen capture tool File -> Create -> Screenshot That will open a selected area as an image and you can color pick that.
something like this: https://i.imgur.com/4QTyMtL.mp4 ctrl to use paint/pencil as the picker
edit again: Tried the fix mentioned in the bug report uninstalling xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and that works (providing it does not scramble something in your installation and is applicable to a flatpak)