Unusual Gimp Start-Up...

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:29 pm **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.4
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Advanced Level

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Recently I've noticed that my 2.6 (Gimp that is) has been opening without displaying one of my numerous splash-screens that I love to see.
It has been doing this over the past 2-3 weeks, sometimes displaying a splash-screen and sometimes not. :hoh

Anyone know what might be causing this anomaly?

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

It's not GTK or gimp, it's Windows causing the problem. Run disk clean up and make sure you check thumbnails before deleting. Your thumbnail cache is probably overloaded and gimp opens up before GTK has enough time to scan and find you splash images there.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:57 pm **(#3)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

It's not GTK or gimp, it's Windows causing the problem. Run disk clean up and make sure you check thumbnails before deleting. Your thumbnail cache is probably overloaded and gimp opens up before GTK has enough time to scan and find you splash images there.

That sounds plausible, even though I regularly (sometimes twice a day) do a disk clean. After doing my daily maintenance routine and selecting an image to 'Open with Gimp' it still happens, Gimp will open without displaying a splash screen.
Freaky Windows OS!
This has never happened before this recent outbreak of odd behavior.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Wallace wrote:

K1TesseraEna wrote:

It's not GTK or gimp, it's Windows causing the problem. Run disk clean up and make sure you check thumbnails before deleting. Your thumbnail cache is probably overloaded and gimp opens up before GTK has enough time to scan and find you splash images there.

That sounds plausible, even though I regularly (sometimes twice a day) do a disk clean. After doing my daily maintenance routine and selecting an image to 'Open with Gimp' it still happens, Gimp will open without displaying a splash screen.
Freaky Windows OS!
This has never happened before this recent outbreak of odd behavior.

Thumbnail cache in Disk Cleanup is usually not checked by default.
Maybe you were overlooking that folder option?

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:09 pm **(#5)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Wallace wrote:

K1TesseraEna wrote:

It's not GTK or gimp, it's Windows causing the problem. Run disk clean up and make sure you check thumbnails before deleting. Your thumbnail cache is probably overloaded and gimp opens up before GTK has enough time to scan and find you splash images there.

That sounds plausible, even though I regularly (sometimes twice a day) do a disk clean. After doing my daily maintenance routine and selecting an image to 'Open with Gimp' it still happens, Gimp will open without displaying a splash screen.
Freaky Windows OS!
This has never happened before this recent outbreak of odd behavior.

Thumbnail cache in Disk Cleanup is usually not checked by default.
Maybe you were overlooking that folder option?

I always dump my thumbnails manually. I won't be checking my thumbnail cache before running Gimp. :hehe

I'll just have to live with the inane Windows behavior.
I've also notice that when this odd behavior happens, it doesn't show up in 'Windows Task Manager, as an application that is running until it has fully opened.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:17 am **(#6)**

Wallace, Have you tried starting Gimp from the command line --verbose?
It might give you some info that may help. Here's the first part of mine, I'm not using a custom splash so you'll notice a 'failed' on my user folder.

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odinbc@odinbc-xxx:~$ gimp --verbose
INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/unitrc'
Parsing '/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc'
Parsing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/gimprc'
gimp_composite: verbose=no
Processor instruction sets: +mmx +sse +sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis
Adding theme 'Small' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Small)
Adding theme 'Default' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default)
Writing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/themerc'
Trying splash '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/gimp-splash.png' ... failed
Trying splash '/usr/share/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png' ... OK
INIT: gimp_initialize ...

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:34 pm **(#7)**

Odinbc wrote:

Wallace, Have you tried starting Gimp from the command line --verbose?
It might give you some info that may help. Here's the first part of mine, I'm not using a custom splash so you'll notice a 'failed' on my user folder.

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odinbc@odinbc-xxx:~$ gimp --verbose
INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/unitrc'
Parsing '/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc'
Parsing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/gimprc'
gimp_composite: verbose=no
Processor instruction sets: +mmx +sse +sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis
Adding theme 'Small' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Small)
Adding theme 'Default' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default)
Writing '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/themerc'
Trying splash '/home/odinbc/.gimp-2.8/gimp-splash.png' ... failed
Trying splash '/usr/share/gimp/2.0/images/gimp-splash.png' ... OK
INIT: gimp_initialize ...

That sounds like it might supply me with some interesting information, but I really have an idea what "starting Gimp from the command line --verbose" is or how to initiate such a command.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:08 am **(#8)**

Start menu | Run | type, cmd, hit enter.
At the command prompt enter path,
C:\Program Files\Gimp 2\gimp-2.8.exe --verbose
Hit enter.
Command line info

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

Ditto!
if you use a portable version of gimp change the path to point to gimp.exe

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Dec 27, 2013 3:29 pm **(#10)**

It's happening again...
This time I removed the,

file from my "splashes folder". This seemed to do the trick.
One more thing...
Is the "gtk" file really necessary in order to have random splash screen images show on Gimp start-up?

Also I tried to find the documentation for setting up this splashes folder and was not able to open gimp.org to find that information.
What up with gimp.org, Is it me or are others having issues with going to gimp.org?