Description of problem: Trying the first thing in gimp after loading a picture, and this happened to be "clone tool", I immediately got: Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 65222 error_code 3 request_code 39 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) aborting... gimp: terminated: Aborted (script-fu:3087): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error The above was already with '--sync' added to an invocation. Apparently an area to clone was aquired ok but any attempt to apply a cloned brush results in the above and an immediate termination of the program. This was on x86_64 and I do not have means to check another architectures. Radeon video card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gimp-2.4.0-0.rc1.1.fc8 gtk2-2.11.6-6.fc8 libX11-1.1.2-2.fc8 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-20.fc8 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.193-3.fc8 How reproducible: always
Apparently I was "lucky" trying a clone tool first. Scaling down a sample image worked for me. OTOH trying to "clone" something on a scaled down picture, or painting after picking up a colour, ended up with the same kind of error. I was able to click four or five times, though, with a "cloned" brush before gimp aborted again but this could be a coincidence. An attempt to paint bombed out right away.
Works for me with current svn (also on x86_64) on F7. A new RC is due soon which should hopefully fix this.
Should be fixed in gimp-2.4.0-0.rc2.1.fc8, please check.
Yes, it looks that it works now; at least with gimp-2.4.0-0.rc2.2.fc8. Sorry for a delay; I was away.