ttj - Tom Jones

Gimp makes the hard things maybe possible, and the easy things very difficult. Symptom: you want to select a part of the image, in this case with the rectangle-select tool.  Instead of allowing you to make a selection, the application taunts you by drawing a no-entry sign, a cross-hairs, and a little rectangle.  If you are paying attention, you may see the text "Cannot subtract from an empty selection" in the status bar, which gives a clue about what's gone wrong. In the tool setting area is "Mode", with 4 possibilities.  These are labelled with hieroglyphics, not text.  The normal mode, replace, is the left-hand one.  Choose that, and gimp may deign to allow you to make a selection in your image. My screenshot program doesn't capture the mouse cursor, so here's a photo of it:

My name's Tom and I work full-time in compliance.  Not as an employment.  But banks and the like just keep giving me never-ending admin tasks, in order to have access to my own property.  I don't see how economic growth could be possible under such a regime, and suspect that it's not, but here we are. One of the tasks of this kind of compliance officer is to print out screenshots, as banks love things on paper and in PDF format, which stands for "print digital format".  On Debian, not knowing better, I use GIMP for this. A reasonable default when printing an image to an A4 sheet might be to set a margin around the sheet, and then fit the image to fit the sheet within this margin, whatever comes first, height or width, subject to orientation of the sheet and aspect ratio of the image.  Without going below some minimum resolution, maybe 100 dpi. GIMP does not do that.  My screenshots, of xterms, were coming out tiny.  I looked up how to change it.  ...