can't change colours on gimp

[loolaeel]

(03-10-2021, 04:45 PM)rich2005 Wrote: The screenshots help a lot.  From that last one it looks to me like (1) you are on the text layer (2) you are making a selection around the text and the active path
..... and of course nothing happens.

Turn the selection off Select -> None
Make the middle layer (layer) active
Set the FG colour
Then Edit -> Fill Path

This a 40 second animation of that sequence.  https://i.imgur.com/lWUTeeE.mp4

Thank you so much. I really appreciate the help.