[SOLVED] Gimp not launching on Kubuntu 11.04

My friend loved the Ubuntu 10.10 because of gnome, but he loves to get upgraded so he upgraded and got the unity and told that he didn’t loved that. So he installed a fresh Kubuntu 11.04. Then while he started gimp, he found the following problem:

And asked me to help. Well as usual I searched for the solution over the internet but didn’t got the actual solution so I tried to mix up all the solution and concluded to a final solution that worked on my friends PC.

– change GTK+appearance to Rayleigh
– start Gimp and stop it
– change GTK+ appearance back to oxygen.

This process may apply to any other program. Hope this solution works for you.

25 thoughts on “[SOLVED] Gimp not launching on Kubuntu 11.04”

    1. Hi hubla, its not the mistake of gimp authors. Its just a simple mistake of compatibility. If any problem occurs, we are there to help you guys.
      Have fun.

    1. Yes that seems to have worked for me too.
      I can’t believe this slipped through the net; the solution is very simple for those in the know but what about Linux newbies?
      Gotta say that Kubuntu 10.04 was excellent quality though, imo.

  1. – change GTK+appearance to Rayleigh
    – start Gimp and stop it
    – change GTK+ appearance back to oxygen.
    Worked for me   🙂   Thanks.

  2. I’m running Kubuntu and that worked too.  You need to make sure you do it in 2 places: Application Appearance –> GTK+ Appearance (widget style) and do the same in: Application Appearance –> Style (widget style).

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