[Gimp-user] unknown software exception

2008-12-08 Thread Rinke H.
I can't say I'm a newby in computers, but sometimes they keep me wondering if these machines are really so logic as we think. Well, anyway, I read something about disabling fonts in the gimp via the --no-fonts command line option, and decided to give it a try, if maybe that caused my troubles

[Gimp-user] unknown software exception

2008-11-27 Thread Rinke H.
I just installed gimp 2.6 on my windows 2000 machine, but the program is inherently instable and is not able to run longer than 5 seconds before it crashes and disappears. Most of the time it already crashes at startup; if not it crashes as soon as you click a button or menu item. The error

Re: [Gimp-user] unknown software exception

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Rinke H. wrote: I just installed gimp 2.6 on my windows 2000 machine, but the program is inherently instable and is not able to run longer than 5 seconds before it crashes and disappears. Most of the time it already crashes at startup; if not it crashes as soon as

[Gimp-user] unknown software exception

2008-11-27 Thread Rinke H.
Hi Daniel, Thanks for answering. Could you try completely uninstalling the old GIMP and the old GTK+ libraries before installing the current version of GIMP? I did. I completely uninstalled the old version before installing the new, including the old GTK+ which indeed has to be un-installed