place text on path, unwanted border on text

[bbxrider]

thanks again for the reply,
the plugin is not working, at least I don't get the
dialogue when selecting text along path

am going backwards here, now the actual
text is not along the path but I end up with
the orignal text and a curved version of it, then
if I turnoff viewing it in the paths dialogue
what remains is the original text

another 4 hours down the gimp rabbit hole