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Issue with GIMP scripts - Debian Trixie (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by limelight79@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi, all. I'm trying to use the logo creator scripts in GIMP under Debian Trixie. Standard apt install, using Debian sources, including gimp-data-extras, which is the package with the scripts. The packages are all up to date.

When I try to run any of the logo scripts, I get an error message like this:

Execution error for 'Alien Glow': Error: eval: unbound variable: gimp-text-fontname

I've done some searching, and the results all say things like, "Oh, your script is missing..." or something like that. But it's not my script, it's a standard script with GIMP. All of the logo scripts give this error, on two different computers (both with Debian Trixie).

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's having an issue with a value. This explains it so I don't need to write a novel: https://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6756

Some of the default values in Gimp Scripts are bad, and it's kind of a crapshoot.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tried editing one of them to change the -1 in the gimp-text-fontname call to None, then Null. Restarted GIMP after each change, but I'm still getting the error.

But it sounds like it's an error in the GIMP distribution...

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you need to directly edit the script if that's what you mean. You want to edit the values in the plug-in menu so it's not out of bounds. Those get passed to the script, which then executes.

You probably need the direct error instead of this raised exception. Start Gimp from a terminal, trigger the error, and see if the terminal error is showing exactly what the script's error is.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the message in the terminal isn't helpful:

scriptfu-Message: 19:50:36.837: Error while executing script-fu-alien-glow-logo:

That's it. There's no additional info.

I just downloaded the Gimp appimage, but it doesn't have the logo generation scripts in it. I feel like they've been abandoned and no one noticed.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well poking around, it seems that specific plugin was only meant for Gimp 2.10, and you must be on 3.0+ by now, so I would consider it unusable.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ah that would do it. Disappointing. But thanks for the suggestions and finding that.

Yeah 3.0 on Trixie.

Sounds like that gimp-data-extras package shouldn't apply to 3.x. So maybe that's the fundamental problem.