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GIMP 2.4.2 on Leopard

Cromulent

Cromulent

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Is anyone else using the latest version of the GIMP on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) and experiencing constant crashes? I downloaded the binary release from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ and have had nothing but trouble. I have all the latest updates installed.

Basically the mouse tracking is slow, so when you move the mouse it takes a couple of seconds for the cursor to catch up which makes it tricky to draw anything. Then when you do actually start drawing the program just bombs out. Is this a widespread problem or do I just have a dodgy install?
 
Cromulent said:
Is anyone else using the latest version of the GIMP on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) and experiencing constant crashes? I downloaded the binary release from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ and have had nothing but trouble. I have all the latest updates installed.

Basically the mouse tracking is slow, so when you move the mouse it takes a couple of seconds for the cursor to catch up which makes it tricky to draw anything. Then when you do actually start drawing the program just bombs out. Is this a widespread problem or do I just have a dodgy install?
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exactly the same thing happened to me.... ive actually downloaded that program 4-5 times, making sure i didnt do anything wrong... but no luck

i think they yet to make an update coz its not compatible with leopard
 
candychunk said:
exactly the same thing happened to me.... ive actually downloaded that program 4-5 times, making sure i didnt do anything wrong... but no luck

i think they yet to make an update coz its not compatible with leopard
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According to the download it was the Leopard version. Ah well, I just hope they manage to fix it soon. Otherwise I might just try and compile it myself and see if that fixes the problems.
 
I have the latest Gimp too, but on Tiger... and even then it crashed alot.. then i found some things about why it crashed, with using tools like resizing, rotating, .. outside the window...
 
lofight said:
I have the latest Gimp too, but on Tiger... and even then it crashed alot.. then i found some things about why it crashed, with using tools like resizing, rotating, .. outside the window...
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I can't even get to the stage or resizing etc. I just try and draw a simple line and boom auto crash.
 
Cromulent said:
I can't even get to the stage or resizing etc. I just try and draw a simple line and boom auto crash.
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that's very frustrating.. another reason to wait for leopard too buy it :p or to hope that Gimp works faster on a new version
 
lofight said:
that's very frustrating.. another reason to wait for leopard too buy it :p or to hope that Gimp works faster on a new version
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Don't get me wrong I have no complaints with Leopard really. I just hope a new version of the GIMP is released soon. It is quite a useful tool. At least Blender 2.45 works well :).
 
Cromulent said:
Don't get me wrong I have no complaints with Leopard really. I just hope a new version of the GIMP is released soon. It is quite a useful tool. At least Blender 2.45 works well :).
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It IS usefull i agree, and fantastic that it's free! i tried leopard in an apple shop and i really liked it! i don't use blender, but i've also wanted too, is it hard to work with if i have no 3D skills??
 
lofight said:
It IS usefull i agree, and fantastic that it's free! i tried leopard in an apple shop and i really liked it! i don't use blender, but i've also wanted too, is it hard to work with if i have no 3D skills??
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I'll be honest I find it pretty tricky to get to grips with the UI but the video tutorials that are available explain things in a nice way. I'm still learning myself but I don't think it is that hard. Just time consuming really.
 
Cromulent said:
I'll be honest I find it pretty tricky to get to grips with the UI but the video tutorials that are available explain things in a nice way. I'm still learning myself but I don't think it is that hard. Just time consuming really.
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have you made anything showable :p ?
 
Cromulent said:
Is anyone else using the latest version of the GIMP on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) and experiencing constant crashes? I downloaded the binary release from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ and have had nothing but trouble. I have all the latest updates installed.
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It's been happening to me like crazy! I just switched from Ubuntu to my new Macbook and Gimp hates it! Which makes me sad since I sure cannot afford photoshop! I need to find an in between if Gimp isn't corrected.. :(
 
I am running the latest version of GIMp on my 10.5.1 system with no issues. I did download the compiled version now that they have it and not the binary.
 
synth3tik said:
I am running the latest version of GIMp on my 10.5.1 system with no issues. I did download the compiled version now that they have it and not the binary.
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maybe a newb question, but what is the difference between a compiled and a binary version...???
 
Cromulent said:
None.

They are both precompiled. Unless he meant to say that he downloaded the source and compiled it himself.
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what is compiled??? sorry not native, is it like having all things of an app and then putting them together in one .dmg ??
 
lofight said:
what is compiled??? sorry not native, is it like having all things of an app and then putting them together in one .dmg ??
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Basically an application is just source code. In order to turn it into an application or binary (they are the same thing) you need to compile it with a compiler. This changes the human readable source code into machine code which the computer then executes.
 
Cromulent said:
Basically an application is just source code. In order to turn it into an application or binary (they are the same thing) you need to compile it with a compiler. This changes the human readable source code into machine code which the computer then executes.
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oh, i understand, i learn new things here at macrumors every day..
 
Okay got it working now after a bit of searching.

Run this command from the terminal :

Code: 
[B]curl -LO http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/x11-apple/x11_update.sh[/B]

then

Code: 
[B]sudo sh x11_update.sh[/B]

and that should patch the X11 libs that come with Leopard and stop the crashing.

More information about the fix is found here : http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin

Get the binary installer here : http://wilber-loves-apple.org/pages/download.html

There is no need to reinstall it just run the two commands shown above and the crashes will magically disappear :).
 
I just tried the shell script and it works perfectly now.

So it's an X11 issue?! yay... hope that will get fixed by a software update anytime soon...

Thanks alot!
- miguy2k
 
I tried typing that in X11 and GIMP still crashes on me. Anyone have other ideas? Here is the error that it gives me when I go to report it:

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.2.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libXft.2.dylib requires version 3.0.0 or later, but libfontconfig.1.dylib provides version 2.0.0
 
Ja Di ksw said:
I tried typing that in X11 and GIMP still crashes on me. Anyone have other ideas? Here is the error that it gives me when I go to report it:

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.2.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libXft.2.dylib requires version 3.0.0 or later, but libfontconfig.1.dylib provides version 2.0.0
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Run it from Terminal. I'm not sure what you did by running it from the Xterm prompt provided by X11 but Gimp works perfectly for me now.
 
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