Gimp running slooooooooooooooooow

Berto · 03-21-2007, 01:16 AM

Trying to use Gimp right now and the paint brush tool is making it run like I'm on a 486 with 4 megs of ram. This is total BS. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?

When I had Slackware 11 on this machine Gimp ran like it should but this is ridiculous.

Athlon64 3500+
GeForce 7600GT
1024MB RAM
VectorLinux 5.8 download edition
Gimp 2.2.13

The Headacher · 03-21-2007, 06:44 AM

I don't know what might be causing it. It seems to work fine on my box( which is not as powerful as yours), but I do have Nvidia drivers installed.

Have you by any chance updated the lot some time ago? there were problems with a new gtk2 package (I told them to leave it alone, but they wouldn't listen

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Berto · 03-21-2007, 11:48 AM

The problem lies in the XFCE's composite manager, I turned it off and Gimp ran smoothly.

I'll see about gtk2 and getting a different version.

The Headacher · 03-22-2007, 01:50 AM

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's just that a broken gtk2 package was in the repo for a few days. If your version is the default one ( gtk+2-2.8.20-i486-1 , a Slackware package ) you're good for sure.