Today, 12:33 AM
gimptool is probably in some gimp-dev package.
What is happening here is at Gimp is trying to see if there is another instance already running, and to do so it checks if it is registered on the dbus, if if it find it it forwards any parameters and exits.
IMHO getting a timeout there isn't a problem with Gimp but with something broken in your DBUS, possibly some process hung in a callback. Two things to try:
What is happening here is at Gimp is trying to see if there is another instance already running, and to do so it checks if it is registered on the dbus, if if it find it it forwards any parameters and exits.
IMHO getting a timeout there isn't a problem with Gimp but with something broken in your DBUS, possibly some process hung in a callback. Two things to try:
- reboot or logout/login to try to reset the DBUS (there may be other ways to do this...)
- start Gimp with a with a --new-instance argument which could make it skip searching for an existing instance