it's keeping me from making a true change-over to linux. i tried slackware, redhat, knoppix, and gentoo, across 3 different computers, 32bit, 64bit, intel, amd. i've searched high and low for a fix... my system works beautifully. gimp emerges fine. the problem... the cursor disappears if placed over an image to do any kind of work. i can use the selection tool and just a couple of others without a problem. but i can not use the pencil, paintbrush, burn/dodge, and most others without the cursor becoming invisible. the cursor reappears as soon as it leaves the image area. i have no problems with the cursor in any other program. if i bring up curses or levels, the cursor will reappear temporarily. i've tried gimp and gimpshop. i've tried emerging different version. i've built and installed gimp manually. i've tried different types of mice. all to no avail. please help/advise. this problem basically makes gimp half useless.
*** Bug 148445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
gimp version? emerge --info?
gimp version and emerge info below (but the same problem is continual across the last three gimps versions i've tried and different distros including gentoo 2005.0 32bit amd i686, slackware 10 and more, and 3 seperate boxes ranging from Pentium 200, PII, and now AMD3200) (all previous builds were not hardened)(each previous box had a different video card) (my flags may seem odd but give me a fast, stable system) (my only other problems so far are trying to get a couple of 32bit x86 games working correctly on my 64bit box) currently... GIMP version 2.2.12 Portage 2.1.1 (hardened/amd64/multilib, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-hardened-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-hardened-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:30:08 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -O1 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -mieee-fp -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mmmx -fforce-addr" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -O1 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -mieee-fp -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mmmx -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amuled apache2 apm arts asf audiofile avi berkdb binfilter bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection crypt css cups curl custom-cflags dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux dlloader dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode erandom esd evo exif expat fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gtkspell hal hardened i8x0 icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irc ithreads jack jack-tmpfs java joystick jpeg justify kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kernel_linux ladcca lcd lcms ldap libclamav libg++ libvisual libwww linuxthreads-tls lzo mad matroska mbox mikmod mime mjpeg mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql mythtv nas ncurses nls nntp nocd nptl nptonly nsplugin ntfs ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl perlsuid php pic pie png portaudio posix python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline recode reiserfs samba sdl session shared shorten slang smp socks5 sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa vorbis wmf wxwindows xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmms xorg xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Shrug, definitely not a Gentoo specific issue at all according to your description, please go ask upstream: http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html http://www.gimp.org/bugs/
