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GIMP

Installation

Gimp is include and installed by default on Mint.

Extends Gimp features

More brushes and patterns

sudo apt install -y gimp-data-extras

More plug-ins

  • Huge collection of plug-ins gimp-gmic
sudo apt install -y gimp-gmic
  • TODO
sudo apt install -y gimp-plugin-registry
  • Pandora is a GIMP script which helps in stitching together multiple images to make a panorama. (Version in ubuntu repo DO NOT WORK ANY MORE)
sudo apt install -y pandora

System integration

sudo apt install -y gnome-xcf-thumbnailer

Then complete XCF thumbnailer configuration using:

function XCF_thumbnailer_config {
  # Make thumbnailer file
  sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/thumbnailers/

  if [ -f /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-xcf.thumbnailer ] ; then
    echo 'File /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-xcf.thumbnailer still exist'
  else
    cat <<EOF | sudo tee /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-xcf.thumbnailer
[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer
Exec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer %i %o
MimeType=image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;
EOF
  fi

  ### Delete created directories
  rm -r ~/.thumbnails/fail
  rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail

  ### Kill file manager; Use as-is or modify for system;
  which nautilus && nautilus -q
  which nemo && nemo -q
  which caja && caja -q
}

XCF_thumbnailer_config

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