10-31-2021, 04:59 PM
I have the flatpak versions of GIMP 2.10.28 and Scribus 1.5.7 installed under Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.2. I wish to invoke GIMP from within Scribus to edit an image. The Scribus preferences allow me to define (in the External Tools option) the 'Name of Executable'. While I am not sure exactly what is meant here I assume it is the fully qualified path and name of the gimp executable that is required. I know of no way of definitively finding out what either of these two items of information is - for instance, the "flatpak info -l" option for gimp does not point to an executable, only a directory with an extensive tree structure 'below' it. I have used 'find' in Nemo, discovering more than 30 paths which might be relevant, out of approx. 2,900 'hits' on 'gimp' - but none of them work. Can anybody explicitly tell what what I should be using in Scribus? Has anyone actually ever done this?
I ask this because I had a similar challenge in trying to edit Gimp preferences to correctly invoke darktable 3.6.1 - but no one has so far been able to tell me what the correct string is, or even to prove (i.e. validate their claims) that they have actually done it, with my installed versions of the apps under Mint 20.2. I have concluded that this is not possible with Gimp in this scenario.
I ask this because I had a similar challenge in trying to edit Gimp preferences to correctly invoke darktable 3.6.1 - but no one has so far been able to tell me what the correct string is, or even to prove (i.e. validate their claims) that they have actually done it, with my installed versions of the apps under Mint 20.2. I have concluded that this is not possible with Gimp in this scenario.