Eyedropper issue

**thewump** · 11 January 2007, 09:55 PM

Hi All,

I'm a loooooooooooooong time Xara user just switched to Linux. I'm having a couple of issues.

1) Layers. I never used them, but having some issues with them on xar files I open from my old windows install.. No big deal.

2) The EYEdropper is doing weird things when I try to use it to pick a color. it is typically not working at all, and making the object "blue".

Any ideas? Running the latest stable build on Ubuntu.

Thanks

Keith

**Soquili** · 11 January 2007, 10:32 PM

Hi Keith,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

The "stable" release is several months older than the 1764 build because there has been a pause in development of the Linux version until later this month. The 1764 build is very stable and I have been running it on my Debian machine since it was made available. Build 1764 also contians some bug fixes to the old stable release. I also think some features may have been added as they are working toward a version 1.0 which is to have all the features of the Windows Xara Xtreme.

**thewump** · 11 January 2007, 10:41 PM

Cool 1) I'll install the latest then
Cool 2) This is a responsive forum ;-)

While I'm not a coder, I'm an avid Xara user, so hope I can be of use to the forum on the more Xara functionality level.

Best

Keith

**thewump** · 12 January 2007, 12:07 AM

I've installed the latest version, but still get the eyedropper bug.. basically it isn't picking up the color of the pixel that it is over.

Anyone?

Keith

**Soquili** · 12 January 2007, 01:22 AM

Keith I cannot duplicate the bug with the Debian distro 3.1r2 and Gnome 2.8.1 GUI.

**jedfrechette** · 12 January 2007, 06:38 PM

I can't duplicate this either.

It is probably worth filing a bug about including the details of your environment so the developers can help debug it.

**kereru** · 22 January 2007, 02:59 AM

I had this problem on Ubuntu Breezy (and Fedora I think)
Only if you are running xgl/compiz though.

**dorotap** · 22 January 2007, 05:11 AM

I'm running Ubuntu Edgy, and I used to have the same problem with the eyedropper, but only on Beryl. When I switched to Metacity, the problem was gone. I'm using the past tense because I have just tried the eyedropper on Beryl, and everything seems to be working perfectly well.

Yesterday Beryl 0.2.0-beta2 was released, so I think that the problem disappeared after I had installed the latest Beryl version (AIGLX).

This is my first post on this forum, so I would like to thank the Xara Team for the Linux version of Xara. This is a wonderful app, and I really hope you will keep on developing it!

Best regards,

Dorota Podrzucka

**thewump** · 23 January 2007, 05:34 PM

Must be XGL then.. I'm running beryl on XGL

Keith

**jbus** · 25 January 2007, 05:39 PM

I have the same problem using ubuntu 6.10 & the latest Beryl/XGL. I believe I submitted a bug report about this problem a while back.

With more and more Linux users using AIGLX/XGL & Compiz/Beryl, Xara devs should really look into this problem. I have not seen any other application with a color picker have this problem. Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Gcolor2, etc... All have color pickers that work just fine with compiz/beryl & XGL/AIGLX.

While waiting for this issue to be fixed, I have been using Gcolor2 as my picker and manually pasting the color values into xtreme. It's very inconvenient, but it allows me to continue using xtreme without sacrificing the benefits of a hardware accelerated desktop.