Pinta wants to crash

[dreamer]

Pinta crashes fast after opening a png or jpg picture (from within the application). This seems to be a common problem related to the mono runtime. Here is some info about it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1686173

The solution seems to be to upgrade mono. It's possible to add an official mono repo for Debian from the link below. This is what is suggested in the link above.

http://www.mono-project.com/download/st ... lin-debian

Do you think it is a good idea to add the repo to solve mono bugs (and Pinta crashes)?

(I'll be back tomorrow)

[KBD]

Pinta crashes fast after opening a png or jpg picture (from within the application). This seems to be a common problem related to the mono runtime. Here is some info about it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1686173

The solution seems to be to upgrade mono. It's possible to add an official mono repo for Debian from the link below. This is what is suggested in the link above.

http://www.mono-project.com/download/st ... lin-debian

Do you think it is a good idea to add the repo to solve mono bugs (and Pinta crashes)?

(I'll be back tomorrow)

Yes, she is crashing on me as well in Debian Stable MATE. Especially if I open a 2nd image. Shame because in the past I never had issues with Pinta.

[dolphin_oracle]

Pinta crashes fast after opening a png or jpg picture (from within the application). This seems to be a common problem related to the mono runtime. Here is some info about it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1686173

The solution seems to be to upgrade mono. It's possible to add an official mono repo for Debian from the link below. This is what is suggested in the link above.

http://www.mono-project.com/download/st ... lin-debian

Do you think it is a good idea to add the repo to solve mono bugs (and Pinta crashes)?

(I'll be back tomorrow)

Yes, she is crashing on me as well in Debian Stable MATE. Especially if I open a 2nd image. Shame because in the past I never had issues with Pinta.

Pinta is no longer maintained by its developer. The crashes are one reason we removed pinta from MX-PI-Popular-Apps, although it remains in debian's repo. For me the crashes had to do with opening and closing files, but not necessarily with editing.

[KBD]

Pinta is no longer maintained by its developer. The crashes are one reason we removed pinta from MX-PI-Popular-Apps, although it remains in debian's repo. For me the crashes had to do with opening and closing files, but not necessarily with editing.

That's a shame. It was always on my apps to install after a fresh install. Will remove it then.
Anything similar to Pinta? I have Gimp, sometimes it's a bit too much though.

[dolphin_oracle]

Pinta is no longer maintained by its developer. The crashes are one reason we removed pinta from MX-PI-Popular-Apps, although it remains in debian's repo. For me the crashes had to do with opening and closing files, but not necessarily with editing.

That's a shame. It was always on my apps to install after a fresh install. Will remove it then.
Anything similar to Pinta? I have Gimp, sometimes it's a bit too much though.

for me, I use mtpaint for basic stuff (think paint from the windows world). we have krita in our repo (test repo maybe?) as well, which is supposed to be pretty good and built for artsy types rather than techie types. And if I'm honest, I still fire up pinta even though it is crashey. I've learned a bit about gimp but its still not "easy" for me.

edit*** I just found an old video I did on mtpaint. my "skills" are woefull in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=uE9QeZbn8JI

there are other more recent videos on youtube.

[chrispop99]

If you are happy to work with an on-line program, have a look at Photopea:

https://www.photopea.com/

Chris

[Stevo]

Perhaps Mypaint or AZpainter could replace it...

Using "paint " as a search term in Synaptic also show other programs such as gnome-paint and gpaint. Some freeware Windows paint programs also run fine in Wine.

[dreamer]

My previous experience indicates that the latest version of Pinta (1.6) is stable. I have used it numerous times in Ubuntu 14.04 and it has never crashed. Because of this I knew that the problem was in the Debian/Ubuntu mono packages.

The Pinta devs are taking a break, but at least one of them wants to get back to the project when time permits.

So I installed mono from the official repo for Debian 9 (MX-17). There is also a repo for Debian 8.

Pinta is now happy and so am I

This is what I did. Perform these steps one at a time (first line was unnecessary on my system). Taken from here:
http://www.mono-project.com/download/st ... lin-debian

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sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list

sudo apt update

After those instructions replace the buggy mono packages with:

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sudo apt dist-upgrade

[KBD]

for me, I use mtpaint for basic stuff (think paint from the windows world). we have krita in our repo (test repo maybe?) as well, which is supposed to be pretty good and built for artsy types rather than techie types. And if I'm honest, I still fire up pinta even though it is crashey. I've learned a bit about gimp but its still not "easy" for me.

edit*** I just found an old video I did on mtpaint. my "skills" are woefull in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=uE9QeZbn8JI

there are other more recent videos on youtube.

Thanks! I need to spend more time with Gimp. I've used it a bit, but seems a big learning curve to get comfortable with it.

[KBD]

If you are happy to work with an on-line program, have a look at Photopea:

https://www.photopea.com/

Chris

Thanks! I've used pixlr in the past for quick online photo editing:
https://pixlr.com/