Please note that in all the previous mewling and whining I have confused using torrent and just clicking download links. Neither is working for me. I keep hearing about all this great stuff that is available for Gimp, but I can't download so much as a logo. Good thing I know how to make my own brushes -- I can just sit cross-legged here in the corner and make my own while the rest of you play nicely together. Sheesh! Pete
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Pete Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing seems to actually be downloading. > Well, one of my attempts got me something with a .gbr extension, but > putting it in my gimp2.8 brush folder doesn't seem to have made any > difference. > I click on the links at deviantart and nothing seems to happen. > I suppose there is some way to search for brushes on torrents so I can use > transmission, but I don't know how to do that, either. > The instructions at Lifehacker say "just search." > How do you search in transmission? I just know how to start it from a > seed; a seed I download in the usual manner. > I disabled noscript in Firefox and when that didn't help I installed and > tried Chromium. No Joy. > Am I cursed? > Pete > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Matt Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 25 May 2013 23:33, Pete Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Almost through the process of getting weaned from PaintShopPro after >> many >> > happy years with it. >> > Now I can do pretty much everything in Gimp I could do with PSP. >> > I can make my own brushes and use them. >> > But so far I can't get any of the zillions of free brushes from sites >> like >> > Noupe. >> > How do I get a set of brushes using Transmission? >> >> Transmission is a program specifically for using bittorrent. If you >> have downloaded a file that is not a .torrent file you don't need to >> use Transmission, you already have the file you want. >> >> > Madly right and left clicking the various links (my usual last resort >> when I >> > don't know what I am doing) yields no joy. >> > I use Transmission for getting iso files, etc. so I know it works. >> > NoScript is often the fly in the ointment, but even with "temporarily >> all >> > this page" I am getting nothing. >> > What obvious thing that everybody else knows by osmosis or instinct >> (yes, I >> > am feeling sorry for myself!) am I missing? >> >> Perhaps the file you have downloaded is an archive of some sort (zip, >> rar, gz etc.) that you need to uncompress. I'm not sure exactly which >> tool you would use to do that in xfce (the desktop environment that >> ubuntustudio uses), but you might be able to just right click on it >> (in your downloads folder) and click "extract here" or something >> similar. >> >> -- >> Matt Wheeler >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >> > >
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