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Gimp does not work on my mac or my macbook pro

I downloaded Gimp and installed it but when I try to launch it, nothing happens. A menu item comes up that says ‘Gimp’ but all I can do is ‘Quit’. The application does not actually load properly. Can you (or anyone) get Gimp working on a mac?
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Russell42

Comments: 3 Responses to “Gimp does not work on my mac or my macbook pro”

    13 years ago

    Did you install X11 as well? You need to have X11 running before you can run GIMP. From http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
    "GIMP uses a separate windowing layer, the X11 windowing protocol, on Mac OS X, which must be installed."
    They give you a link there on that page.

    Russell42
    13 years ago

    I'm running 10.6.6 which has X11 included.
    I also tried XQuartz too.
    When I click on X11 (or XQuartz) in Applications/Utilities, nothing happens. I feel like there is something simple I'm doing wrong but am at a loss. Anyone else have Gimp / X11 running on Mac OS X 10.6.6 ? When I click X11 should an 'X11' menu come up ?

      13 years ago

      Yes, X11 should come up. It should appear as if you have two applications running: Gimp and X11. If X11 isn't running then I would try to re-install X11. It just tried it under 10.6.6 and it ran fine. But it did take GIMP about 2 minutes to launch.

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