On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:06:08PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 23:10 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:11:13PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > > > > > please see my earlier reply to Patrick - the accented letters that > > did not work are definitely in FreeSans, I think the difference is > > that I access them via keys mapped as some-dead-accent + letter. > > OK. So if you paste them into GIMP they work? Or if you click on "use > text editor" in the tool options dialogue when text is active, do they > work in the tool editor?
Will try those at some point - might take a while, other things are in the way. I'd forgotten about the editor option and I didn't have examples of the accented letters anywhere handy - that's the benefit, for me, of setting up my own keymap: I can remember how to get most of the accents (strictly, diacriticals) I use. > > > > Unfortunately I keep losing the ability to paint with any brush. > > When you click on the image with a brush, what happens exactly? Nothing. Specifically - I clicked on one pixel with the current colour and pasted that ok, then as in the previous changes of colour I used the eyedropper to select a different colour, back to tools->paint tools->paintbrush and after that the last time nothing got changed. > > When you drag, what happens? > I've not been dragging - for tiny text itself there is no benefit to dragging, for lines I tend to get a lot more spill (e.g. above or below the line for a horizontal line, usually with a faint version of the selected white or blue). I did try vertical drags over two pixels when adding the umlauts, but again there was spill and no space to let it go - lowercase 'o' is something like 6 pixels by 6 pixels on the least-small of the sizes I'm trying. > In tool options for the paintbrush, is the Mode (at the top) set to > Normal? > > Just below the Mode, is Opacity set to 100% ? Are Brush Dynamics set to > Off? > > Make sure also that Anti erase, near the bottom of tool options, is not > selected. Pressing the Alt key will also choose anti-erase. This > "paints" by removing transparency from the current layer. > Will need to check. > Are you using a graphics tablet and stylus? > No, plain mouse with 2 buttons and wheel. Drawing like this is something I very rarely do. > Modifier keys like caps lock can sometimes make a difference too. > > slave liam > I've set caps lock as my Compose key, but I don't think I was using keys. Maybe I used Alt-F1 to go to my desktop which has firefox open (icewm, gimp is on desktop3) to take a break or check email, or Alt-F3 to come back, but I think I just used the mouse to switch desktops. Thanks for all these details. ĸen -- Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. -- Unseen Academicals _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list