I can't open ANY images with Gimp 1.3.9! They just become all transparent... I also had this problem with the ebuilds for 1.3.8... Is it a known problem? Gimp 1.2.x works great, but non-xft2 apps are UGLY... :P
please give us something ... CFLAGS/USE/`emerge -V` at the minimum ...
sorry.. CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse" USE="X gtk gnome alsa gif crypt 3dnow mmx sse xfs acpi4linux encode opengl nls dvd freetype directfb xinerama -arts -kde -svga" Portage 2.0.43 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2, glibc-2.2.5-r7)
gimp 1.3.* series is development, don't expect them to work. And just set the opacity slider the other way and you got your pic.