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    Problem with My Paint

    Last night I installed the wacom bamboo driver from ppa.launchpad.net/doctormo/wacom-plus/ and my pen and touch pad works beautifully (finally). I also installed My Paint and did some artistic playing around. Everything worked fine but then I decided to try Pinta so I installed it, but when I tried to run it, it wouldn't open. It just showed in the task manager for several seconds then disappeared. So I uninstalled Pinta, but now when I open My Paint it just flashes on the screen for maybe half a second then disappears. I uninstalled it, re-installed it but it still does the same thing. Other paint programs work but no My Paint (which is the Cadillac of paint programs for a touch pad). Anyone have any suggestions how to fix it?
    If I knew half as much now as I thought I knew then, I&#39;d know twice as <br />much as I do.
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    Re: Problem with My Paint

    I think that both programs have some dependencies the same and pinta installed a version, which is now used by paint. You can look at dependencies in Synaptic: right mouse on package, choose Properties. Then you can uninstall some package and let it install again with paint.

    Interesting for somebody: pinta is based on Mono.
    Kubuntu 16.04 on two computers and Kubuntu 17.04 on DELL Latitude 13
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      Re: Problem with My Paint

      Hi I have the MTE450 bamboo.
      maybe we could "start a thread" on it,
      I bought it a couple of YEARS ago and could not get it to work well so it was relegated to the garage.
      I'll watch replies and maybe we could fiddle with this to get things going.
      woodsmoke
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        Re: Problem with My Paint

        Hi

        Whenever a program stops working a good start is to reconfigure it, rather than reinstall, which generally does not work in Linux.

        Open your home directory in dolphin. Select view/show hidden files. You should see an entry for mypaint - probably a folder prefixed with a . which makes it a hidden file.

        Rename the folder (say giving it a .old suffix) and then launch mypaint again. With a bit of luck it will load, but you will need to reconfigure it.

        Once up and running, if you haven't saved any work in the folder you renamed, then you should be able to delete it.

        HTH
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          Re: Problem with My Paint

          Thanks everyone for the help. Actually I couldn't take all the bugs in 11.04 anymore and did a full re-install
          of Maverick 10.10 and all is well. Life is good again. hehe 8)
          If I knew half as much now as I thought I knew then, I&#39;d know twice as <br />much as I do.
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