Impossible to crop

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Hi, writing from Italy and first time here but using Shotwell (always updated) from the beginning in Ubuntu.
It’s been a few months that while using the crop image function, the crop rectangle overimposed on the image have some limits to it’s movements (up-down-left-right) or moving one side separately.
If I drag the border it stops and I cannot go over the invisible limit and reach the border of the original image.
Also using the common sizes suggested.
Thanks

Simone

2

odd. do you have an example image? Also can you state the version of shotwell and gdk-pixbuf? Thanks

3

version here

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but, :slight_smile: tell more about “gdk-pixbuf”.

Tnx

4

In this example the crop area is all to the up left and I can’t drag the border more down right than this.

It doesn’t happen all the time, but I don’t have yet guessed why.

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5

There were several fixes regarding the crop UI between 0.32.6 and 0.32.13, maybe that was one of them (especially if you are on wayland)

6

Just updated to 0.32.13, but the behaviour persists :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

7

ok, then I need the following:

  • The Desktop Environment and distribution you are on
  • The windowing environment (X11 or Wayland)
  • can you start shotwell from the console and see if you get any messages while trying to scale the rectangle?
8

So…

  • Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with gnome 46
  • Wayland
  • kernel Linux 6.8.0-87-generic

Terminal:
** Message: 21:13:58.416: main.vala:509: Starting session with system profile

9

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce that here and I have no idea what happens there, sorry

10

Ok, no problem, I can live with it (Gimp) :wink: .
Thanks for all.