GIMP will not start

[hugocoolens]

Re: GIMP will not start

In a terminal, you need to install the gtk2-engines-oxygen package:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-oxygen

You probably have to restart KDE for the new package to become effective -- if you don't know how to do that just reboot your computer.

After KDE is up, you can go to KMenu > Systemsettings > Application appearance (not workspace appearance), and in the panel on the left you will see an icon for "GTK+ Appearance". Click that, and the top part of the right-hand panel will show "Widget Style" with a drop-down menu. Click the menu and you should see a choice for "Raleigh" as well as "oxygen-gtk". So you choose Raleigh, and click the "Apply" button. Then you change it back to oxygen-gtk, and "apply". That should fix the gimp issue.

I followed your instructions and the Gimp now indeed does start (thank you!). However the Gimp still complains as you can see here below:
hugo@tuxedo:~$ gimp

(gimp:18198): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0

(gimp:18198): Gimp-Widgets-WARNING **: gimp_dialog_factory_dispose: stale non-toplevel entries in factory->open_dialogs

any idea how to proceed further?

thanks in advance
hugo

[Snowhog]

Re: GIMP will not start

hugo@tuxedo:~$ gimp

(gimp:18198): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/goption.c:2132: ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags (8) on option of type 0

(gimp:18198): Gimp-Widgets-WARNING **: gimp_dialog_factory_dispose: stale non-toplevel entries in factory->open_dialogs

Normal when launching Gimp from the console, so ignore the above. You should be able to launch Gimp from the K Menu or Kicker (Alt+F2).