Subj : GIMP Up
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 07:17:00


Hi Mike!

 > It may be worthwhile to have a dedicated machine and/or a Virtual
 > Machine to run the old utilities on -- of course the problem is do the
 > upgrade and the programme no longer works but you may not know until too
 > late.
 MP> Now that I am getting used to the quirks it isn't quite as bad.

The machine is training the operator!


 MP> The issues I was having with Audacity appear to be related to
 MP> LXQt, but only on my laptop.  If I use gnome flashback instead,
 MP> the glitch (the key stroke shortcuts quit working in the middle
 MP> of a project) goes away.
 MP> With LXQt/IceWM on my other machine, it also seems to work fine.

That's a good discovery!  I'm wondering if the problem with the key 
shortcuts is possibly due to a small cache?  Cache gets filled with the 
project (before being written to the hard drive) and so FIFO kicks in 
and you loose the shortcut information.



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