> That's because the Gimp, like all Linux programs, expects '/' rather > than '\' as the separator in a path name. One way to get round it is to > write a small script as a wrapper for the Gimp and tell your program to > use the script as the bitmap editing tool. I just wrote and tested one: > it is called gimpwrapper and has three lines..... > > ==============start of gimpwrapper=============== > #!/bin/bash > f1=$(echo "$*" | tr '\\' '/') > gimp $f1 > ===============end of gimpwrapper================ > > The first line is standard script boiler-plate to make sure that the > bash shell is used to interpret the script, which must be made > executable with chmod. The second line does all the work: it feeds all > the arguments supplied to gimpwrapper through the 'tr' utility, which > replaces all ocurrences of '\' with '/'. The third line passes the > processed argument(s) to the Gimp. > > > Martin Thanks for the answers. First I tried Martin Gregorie 'gimpwrapper'. I saved the script in my desktop (scrivania) and gave the following commands: utente@utente-desktop:~$ sudo cp /home/utente/Scrivania/gimpwrapper /usr/bin utente@utente-desktop:~$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gimpwrapper But when I choose 'Edit subpic with external tool', 'Gimp' keeps on giving: <Opening of "/usr/bin/C:\users\utente\Temp\tempbitmap.bmp" has failed: cannot open '/usr/bin/C:\users\utente\Temp\tempbitmap.bmp' in read mode: non existing file or directory> I don't know what went wrong. Best regards, Paolo
