[Gimp-user] Green Stripes On Tools?

[STINGER wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:15 +0100, STINGER wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk
wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:58 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> > STINGER wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk wrote:
> > > If I use the paths tool and drag to move I get a horrible green mess of
> > > breadcrumbs where the tool has been.
> > 
> > Looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421466
> > 
> > The cause is a driver problem, the workaround is to add
> > 
> >   (xor-color (color-rgb 1.0 1.0 1.0))
> > 
> > to your gimprc
> > 
> >  / Martin
> > 
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> Thanks for the heads up. Yep, it's that Radion Driver. I'll try the
> tweak.. Thanks for both responses. Really appreciated. 
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Thanks all - the tweak for the broken Ubuntu Radion Driver has worked
nicely. No longer do I have the green mess. In case anyone reads this in
the google archives the flaw is a faulty Radion Driver in Ubuntu 8.x and
before. Not sure if it is still an issue in 9.04.

The workaround is to add this line:
(xor-color (color-rgb 1.0 1.0 1.0))


To this file;
/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc

It is already commented too (doh!)
# Sets the color that is used for XOR drawing. This setting only exists
as a
# workaround for buggy display drivers. If lines on the canvas are not
# correctly undrawn, try to set this to white.  The color is specified
in the
# form (color-rgb red green blue) with channel values as floats in the
range
# of 0.0 to 1.0.