I load my image, then click apply, the preview pic comes up. I put my red and green dots it and hit spacebar.
Sometimes it works and the background is gone and it produces a new layer with the background transparent, but when I click OK, the bar at the bottom keeps going back and forth and it wont quit until I hit ESC many times and then I get the message that GMIC has quit responding and then I can get out of it.
This just started to happen since I upgraded to the newest Fedora which may not be the cause. Does anyone else have this problem?

if you got what you expected, NO NEED TO CLICK OK
hit Cancel
you have in Gimp your new layer with the FG extracted

What if I want to edit it because I missed some of the articles? Mine just locks up when I want to continue on fixing the dots.
Also, I can't click cancel because the page where that is goes blank.

in the previous post you said "...when I click OK..."
the Cancel button is where the OK button is, so I don't understand about the blank page; if you were able to click OK (and starting and endless loop, it seems) you are also able to click Cancel
or simply have a look at the result and without clicking anything continue with green/red dots
but, I'm not an expert and I don't have your system...

When I try it again I will try to do a screen shot of the blank page that comes up. the ok, cancel and every thing is blank. I will see if I can re-produce this problem, then post it.

Dinaset, I tried another one and the same thing happens over and over.
1. I open my image with Gmic
2. I click contours - extract.
3. I click click normal preview, it goes very large, If I click smaller then it is only a black square.
4. I click apply and the preview comes up
5. I put all my dots in.
6. I hit the space bar then a white page comes up and it doesn't execute. I try clicking cancel, nothing happens, then I click OK and nothing happens. The only way I can get out of it is to X out of everything. This just started since I updated Fedora. Screen shot below

outside my knowledge, sorry
it seems the problem lies in the preview mechanism
(I see "normal" preview by default and large preview if I choose so)

is there someone else in Gimpchat using Fedora?
maybe David can have a look into the technicalities of the dialog...

I was thinking that maybe David could help, this just doesn't make sense. I had it working like a charm before. BTW what settings should I be using in the extract background? maybe I am doing something wrong there. I was leaving them at default

Maybe have a look here...

[G'MIC] Smart foreground extraction tool:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=11081#p148643

Thanks Wallace, I was looking for the penguins one all day. I ran out out ideas what to type in the Search.

Cool, no problem.

Can anyone tell me what setting I use in this dialogue where the red arrows are?

This is from notes you gave me:


You're clicking OK instead of pressing Enter and I think that's what's messing with your stuff.

No, I wish that was it but where I put that press enter in instructs must have been a typo or my head thinking one thing and my fingers doing something else. (You press OK after you finish editing it)
In this case I haven't been pressing anything except space bar and the second layer doesn't happen and the green bar at the bottom keeps going back and forth and the dialogue page turns white like in the screen shot I posted back on page 1. It is very annoying. If I knew what to blame then maybe I could fix it. Then I got to thinking maybe it is the settings where I showed the arrows because I don't know which ones to choose.

I just did another image, and when I was finished with the dots, I pressed Enter. I had to Cancel or X the G'MIC dialog and then I had two layers of my image. The cleaned one and the rest of the image in the second layer.

@Molly:
I think you should hit Enter (or Q or Esc) when you've finished placing points in the interactive window.

The description in the GMIC window says "When you're done, exit the interactive window..."
and further down under "Interactions" it says "Keys ESC, Q or Enter exit the interactive window".

It may simply be that GMIC is getting confused 'cos you're not closing the interactive window before hitting OK.

Edit:
In fact on my machine (Ubuntu 14.04) you can't hit OK without closing the interactive window first 'cos the GMIC window is completely unresponsive while the interactive window remains open! Perhaps that's where your Fedora machine differs?

This happens before I get to that part. It used to work.
I loaded my pic, opened it up in GMIC, I went to the extract Background file.
I chose normal preview, then clicked apply.
The preview opened but it was almost the size of the monitor
Anyway, I put my green dots on the foreground and the red dots on the background, then I pressed spacebar.
This is when my screen with the dialoges turns white like it shows in my screen shot on page 1 of this thread. Now I can't do anything because of the white screen there is nothing for me to click. I still have just the one layer.
I should have two layers. the original one at the bottom and the one above is the extracted one, but it doesn't do that any more.

The spacebar is used to update the background mask in the interactive window.
You still have to hit Enter (or Esc or Q) to exit the interactive window before you can hit OK.

I finally figured it out. I wasn't doing anything wrong, it is what I didn't do. I needed to change the settings on input output...to active default and output mode {inplace default] and the 4th one down 1st output (default) Every thing worked perfectly after that. This is why I posted that dialogue twice because I forgot what the settings should be.


There is a little piece of hair at the top that I couldn't capture the bit of fuzz

Kudos Molly; knew you would figure this one out (from other thread; just didn't reply there with that sentiment).