MS Paint

[Zarathu]

I desperately need MS Paint on my PC (not any alternatives; it HAS to be MS Paint). Once this is done, my life will be complete.

zarathu@w00w00:~$ wine '/home/zarathu/Desktop/mspaint.exe'
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42u.DLL (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\zarathu\\Desktop\\mspaint.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\zarathu\\Desktop\\mspaint.exe" failed, status c0000135
zarathu@w00w00:~$

How can I get Wine to quit QQ'ing over this and start the damn program?

[DirtDawg]

Well, you can find the .dll from the first error here: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?mfc42u
If I remember right, you can put it in the Windows folder of your Wine install or the folder you're trying to run Paint in. I can't remember if that's exactly right, though.

Still, that might fix your first problem, maybe even your second. Or maybe neither one.

Your insistance on MSPaint is a little surprising. I know from another thread you wrote that you have tried many different alternatives, but I will suggest one more: MtPaint (http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/). It's quit nice (if that kind of thing is your idea of nice ;) )

Also, if you are doing pixel art, you might consider checking out this turorial (http://www.eglug.org/gimpixel). It is a handy guide to setting up GIMP for working with pixel art. I can vouch for its effectiveness(see: my avatar), escpecially if you have a Wacom-type tablet.

I hope this helps one way or another.

[SunnyRabbiera]

you can do better then MS paint yah know...

its far from a professional image app

[DirtDawg]

you can do better then MS paint yah know...

its far from a professional image app

But for pixel art, it's considered the app by some (by "some" I mean "not me").

Also, concerning the OP, have you tried using "winecfg" to switch between Windows XP, Windows 2000, or even NT? Sometimes that works.

[Zarathu]

No, I'm not doing pixel art, and I don't need anything more professional than Photoshop, which is what I currently use when I need image editing that doesn't suck. I do need paint, though.

DirtDawg, thank you for the link...I should have gotten it on my own and tried it before posting the thread, really. RTFM, Nick.

Anyway, I had to put it in my \WINDOWS\system folder. :]

[DirtDawg]

Glad I could help.

[silfiriel]

So did you get ms paint to work on Ubuntu?
I really need it too, because there are no alternatives for it.
I specifically need the ability to compress JPEGs size.
(Ex. a digital photo of about 3MB, just by Save as...>Replace is downsized from 0.5 to 1MB depending on the photo content, and for webmasters this is great).
So far none of the Linux alternatives (mtpaint, gnupaint, kolourpaint)can't do this. And it's the only reason I still dual boot.

Help please...

[DirtDawg]

So did you get ms paint to work on Ubuntu?
I really need it too, because there are no alternatives for it.
I specifically need the ability to compress JPEGs size.
(Ex. a digital photo of about 3MB, just by Save as...>Replace is downsized from 0.5 to 1MB depending on the photo content, and for webmasters this is great).
So far none of the Linux alternatives (mtpaint, gnupaint, kolourpaint)can't do this. And it's the only reason I still dual boot.

Help please...

If you're doing web work (with 3MB jpgs?!), use The Gimp that comes with Ubuntu by default in Applications>Graphics>Gimp.

The simplest method of reducing file size is to open the .jpg in question, then File>SaveAs..., and adjust the "quality" slider. You want to find a balance between quality and size. 85% or so usually gets pretty good results.

The Gimp is a very powerful tool for web graphics that can also be as simple as you would like. There are several other ways to reduce file sizes than simply reducing the quality. If you feel inclined, try looking for Gimp web graphics tutorials with your favorite search engine. I bet you find plenty to read.

[silfiriel]

I know Gimp can reduce the size of JPEG with the quality slider, but a JPEG re-saved with Paint that's been downsized from 3MB to 500KB looks pretty much the same, the quality loss is unnoticeable with bare eye. But when Gimp does this the JPEG looks horrible...
Any way I found a solution, XnView under Wine (not the native linux version, does what Paint does, in the same way...)

[DeVonne]

I got it to work when putting that one .dll into system32 but mspaint will only open .bmp files, which I will be trying to get working with others

[weblordpepe]

mspaint should be easy to get going in wine I would have thought. Although really as far as windows apps that are simple - mspaint is awful. It's got awful image quality & supports 0.01% of filetypes.

It has almost no options for saving filetypes and if you rely on mspaint to save images destined for the web, well its your bandwidth..

I would suggest looking through the ubuntu repositories for some command-line image converstion tools. Should be easy enough to create a icon on the desktop which you can drag/drop & convert files.

I would be happy to help if you would like to do that.
Edit: Check the Netpbm package.

[drozel]

I only use MS Paint for two features that are not well documented. If these features exist in GIMP/KolourPaint/gPaint/MtPaint, then they are not well documented either.

1) The ability to resize the brush to any size.
2) The ability to replace only one color with another color without harming the other colors.

[meho_r]

C'mon guys, are you kidding? Is this a joke? :confused:

[wjaguar]

If these features exist in GIMP/KolourPaint/gPaint/MtPaint, then they are not well documented either.
1) The ability to resize the brush to any size.
2) The ability to replace only one color with another color without harming the other colors.

No amount of documenting can help if users refuse to read docs. :-(
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_03.html#SEC21
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_03.html#SEC34
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/handbook/en_GB/chap_03.html#SEC54

[drozel]

Well, thanks, I could not find documentation online and it failed to install. Now to see if y'all have a forum so I don't drag this topic off topic too much.

[LennyX]

The thing I like about Paint is canvas resizing by dragging a corner. It's easy and intuitive for everyone. Every alternative I've seen has a dialog box where you enter the dimensions in pixels/inches of how big you want the canvas to be.

I find it hard to believe that MS are the only ones who have figured out how to make a program do that. I'm going to devote my next holidays to making a real alternative to Paint dammit.

[pyrofool]

you can download mspaint from Microsoft at http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntwks40/paint/1/nt4/en-us/paintnt.exe

rune wine paintnt.exe , it will extract the needed files then just put them in a folder and run wine MSPAINT.exe and there you go. I just did this tonight and it works perfectly

[asdfoo]

fyi, Katayama Hirofumi MZ is working on getting a free software clone of mspaint into Wine, so hopefully sometime soon there will be a version automatically included with Wine.

[katayama_hirofumi_mz]

mspaint Clone
http://www.geocities.jp/katayama_hirofumi_mz/mspaint/eindex.htm

[spancer_87]

I felt the same way, because the simplicity of ms paint makes image editing so easy. I bought an Asus eee900, and with the Xandros distro there came a very similar painting program with it. It's called Kolourpaint (Kpaint) and it's possible to install it through Synaptics in Ubuntu=) Just do a search through the packages and there it is;)

[HavocXphere]

Get filemon from sysinternals. Use that to scope out what DLLs its using on a Win PC..copy those dlls over. You can also use a disassembler I suppose.

Btw...the MFC in that error you're getting stands for Microsoft Foundation Class. So grabbing the C++ runtimes off the MS page will prob solve your problem.

[DAHstra]

Cool topic. I like MS Paint for Vista even more than XPs because of the zoom out / cut paste feature and hot keys. It seems silly, but it's a handy, fast loading program that I use a lot.

However, I can't get the Vista MSPAINT to run on Ubuntu 9x. I did get the package listed earlier, which is great. Ubuntu runs the XP Paint fine.

Can anyone help me find out how to get Vista Paint to run? It tells me:

"Failed to create empty document"

I have the following support files in its directory:

MSVCRT.DLL
OLEPRO32.DLL
mspaint.exe
MFC42U.DLL
MFC42.DLL
mspaint.exe.mui

:D

[weblordpepe]

Cool topic. I like MS Paint for Vista even more than XPs because of the zoom out / cut paste feature and hot keys. It seems silly, but it's a handy, fast loading program that I use a lot.

However, I can't get the Vista MSPAINT to run on Ubuntu 9x. I did get the package listed earlier, which is great. Ubuntu runs the XP Paint fine.

Can anyone help me find out how to get Vista Paint to run? It tells me:

"Failed to create empty document"

I have the following support files in its directory:

MSVCRT.DLL
OLEPRO32.DLL
mspaint.exe
MFC42U.DLL
MFC42.DLL
mspaint.exe.mui

:D
Quite off-topic I know and the mods will hate me for this-
But I disagree with your signature :)
Logic is universal, not personal. Logic is the benchmark by which absolute and relative are gaged.

[DAHstra]

LOL I came up with that years ago when I was frustrated with drunks. If you're trying to reason with a drunk, you can't. They have their own distorted view of reality.

But I also disagree because who's to say your logic is absolute? Are you SURE? :p

[ad_267]

I know you said it MUST be MS Paint, but seriously, you can't get much closer to it than KolourPaint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolourpaint).

Edit: Never mind, didn't see it had been mentioned already.

[DAHstra]

Thanks, I'll try KolourPaint too. I had to research how to get it so that my OS would not yell at me "USE CHANNEL!" LOL

Anyway, I installed KolourPaint. It's not bad. It seems to have the features I was looking for. However, I'd still like to know how to get MSPaint Vista running. :) But I'll give KolourPaint a go too.

[DAHstra]

Okay, so, I'm also running Windows 7 Release Candidate. The new paint it has is snazzy, but lacks simple features Vista and NT Paint had. So, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I have to ask. Will there be a Windows version of Kolour Paint? :) (no egg throwing please)

[ad_267]

A lot of KDE4 is being ported to Windows, so quite possibly, but not just yet as far as I know.

[Lantizia]

Install Paint 5.0
-----------------
sudo apt-get install wine icoutils unzip -y
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntwks40/paint/1/nt4/en-us/paintnt.exe
unzip paintnt.exe -d ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
rm paintnt.exe
wrestool -x -t14 -n2 ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/MSPAINT.EXE > ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/mspaint.ico
echo -e '[Desktop Entry]\nType=Application\nName=Paint\nExec=wine "C:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\MSPAINT.EXE"\nComment=Creates and edits drawings\nIcon='$HOME'/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/mspaint.ico\nCategories=Utility' > ~/.local/share/applications/mspaint.desktop

[lkraemer]

Followed HavocXphere's instructions for using filemon from sysinternals to scope out what DLL's
needed to be added in C:/Windows/System32 to allow MSPaint to run.

Instructions for getting Windows XP - MS Paint on Linux
MS Paint on Ubuntu
MSPaint Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp Service Pack 3)

1. Copy the following files from a Windows XP (SP3) Install to a USB Flash Drive.
The files you need to copy are located at C:\Windows\System32\ (Files needed are...)
mfc42.dll
mfc42u.dll
msisip.dll
msvcrt.dll
mspaint.exe
olepro32.dll
wshext.dll

2. SEARCH your Hard Drive for GdiPlus.dll. (Mine was Version 6.0.3264.00 from Allen Bradley = Rockwell)
but I also found several, and 5.1.3102.5512 was one of the choices if you can't locate 6.0.3264.0
Copy this file to the USB Flash Drive. (Adds TIF, GIF, JPG, PNG Format Support)

3. Copy the following Folders from a Windows XP (SP3) Install to a USB Flash Drive
C:\Windows\AppPatch
C:\Windows\Fonts

4. Create a Folder named MSPaint at .wine/drive_c/Program Files/
(Substitute a ? for the SPACE in Program?Files for copying.)
drwxr-xr-x 2 larry larry 4096 Jun 18 12:42 MSPaint

5. Copy mspaint.exe to .wine/drive_c/windows/Program Files/MSPaint
Change the permissions of MSPaint to -rwxr--r-- 1 larry larry 343040 Apr 13 2008 mspaint.exe

6. Copy the remaining seven files to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
Copy the Folder AppPatch to .wine/drive_c/windows/
Copy the Folder Fonts to .wine/drive_c/windows/

6. CREATE AN UBUNTU DESKTOP ICON:
Right Click on the Desktop, Left Click on Create Launcher.

Name XP-MSPaint
Description
Command wine "/home/youruserlogin/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSPaint/mspaint.exe"
Comment Microsoft XP Paint Ver 5.1

Change ICON as needed from PNG files below, or use the Wine Icon - Wine.svg.
I used Icon Entry7.png. I copied this png to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
with permissions of:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 674 Jun 18 12:56 Icon Entry_1.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2015 Jun 18 12:56 Icon Entry_4.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3766 Jun 18 12:56 Icon Entry_7.png

7. Double click on XP-MSPaint to test Paint ver 5.1
Be sure to Click on TEXT in the Left Menu, then draw a Box for the TEXT INPUT,
then go to the top menu and select VIEW TEXT BOX to allow for changing the
Font selection and size.

8. When a printer has been installed......To change Print from Portrait to Landscape,
go to Printer settings and change it there versus the opening Print Setup screen selection.

Things that do not work properly are:
1. Printing - When opening a LARGE BMP File, and trying to Preview, or print to paper.

Tested with Wine 1.01 and Ubuntu 9.10 03-03-2010
Tested with Wine 1.1.42 & Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 05-19-2010

Tested with Debian 6.0 & Wine-1.1.42

lk

[weblordpepe]

Followed HavocXphere's instructions for using filemon from sysinternals to scope out what DLL's
needed to be added in C:/Windows/System32 to allow MSPaint to run.

Instructions for getting Windows XP - MS Paint on Linux
MS Paint on Ubuntu
MSPaint Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp Service Pack 3)

1. Copy the following files from a Windows XP (SP3) Install to a USB Flash Drive
C:\Windows\System32\ (Files needed are...)
mfc42.dll
mfc42u.dll
msisip.dll
msvcrt.dll
mspaint.exe
olepro32.dll
wshext.dll

2. Copy the following Folders from a Windows XP (SP3) Install to a USB Flash Drive
C:\Windows\AppPatch
C:\Windows\Fonts

3. Create a Folder named MSPaint at .wine/drive_c/Program Files
(Substitute a ? for the SPACE in Program?Files for copying.)

4. Copy mspaint.exe to .wine/drive_c/windows/Program Files/MSPaint
Copy the remaining six files to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
Copy the Folder AppPatch to .wine/drive_c/windows
Copy the Folder Fonts to .wine/drive_c/windows


5. CREATE A UBUNTU DESKTOP ICON:
Right Click on the Desktop, Left Click on Create Launcher.

Name XP-MSPaint
Description
Command wine "/home/youruserlogin/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSPaint/mspaint.exe"
Comment Microsoft XP Paint Ver 5.1

6. Double click on XP-MSPaint to test Paint ver 5.1
Be sure to Click on TEXT in the Left Menu, then draw a Box for the TEXT INPUT,
then go to the top menu and select VIEW TEXT BOX to allow for changing the
Font selection and size.

7. When a printer has been installed......To change Print from Portrait to Landscape,
go to Printer settings and change it there versus the opening Print Setup screen selection.

Things that do not work properly are:
1. Printing - When opening a LARGE BMP File, and trying to Preview, or print to paper.

Tested with Wine 1.01 and Ubuntu 9.10 03-03-2010

lk

sweeeeeeeeeet

[Bwathke]

Why does everyone "need" MS Paint so badly? GIMP does what MS Paint does x10 better =/ Its less professional then Photoshop but it still is better then MS Paint and it comes with Ubuntu.

Applications >>> Graphics >>> GIMP Image Editor

[lkraemer]

Bwathke,
It's a simple answer for me. I had some plans scanned at 600DPI and
the size in pixels was 21600 x 36000 (21.4M) 1BB. Several of the
files were burnt to CDR and named Temp000398 thru Temp000404. I tried
GIMP and I couldn't view or open the files. Image Viewer, or any other
Application I have tried didn't work either. I needed to find out what
information was contained in each file. I finally tried MS Paint 5.1
and it worked great. Next step was to get MS Paint running in Wine 1.0.1.

I'd much rather use GIMP, or some other Linux Application, but so
far I haven't found a way to do that yet. Do you have any Ideas or
helpful Suggestions I could try?

I have successfully used other Windows Software running in VirtualBox to clean
up the scans and print to paper.

Maybe I need to submit a BUG Report for Gimp not being able to open that
LARGE of a TIF file!

Thanks.

lk

[TNAFan]

Why does everyone "need" MS Paint so badly? GIMP does what MS Paint does x10 better =/ Its less professional then Photoshop but it still is better then MS Paint and it comes with Ubuntu.

Applications >>> Graphics >>> GIMP Image Editor

Very simple. I want an easy to use select tool.

[peterson_espacoporto]

@TNAFan

Kolourpaint?

[Jcj91]

Why does everyone "need" MS Paint so badly? GIMP does what MS Paint does x10 better =/ Its less professional then Photoshop but it still is better then MS Paint and it comes with Ubuntu.

Applications >>> Graphics >>> GIMP Image EditorI can very much identify with people who would like their old trusty apps working in Linux. I am sure Gimp is capable of doing everything that MS Paint does but to me, as I have been using MS Paint since the days it was still called 'Paintbrush' in Windows 3.0, its interface feels almost instinctive and that's why I for one would very much like it to work in Ubuntu. So yes, you're probably right when you say that I and perhaps others are closed minded when it comes to learning how to use alternative applications, admittedly.
The thing that annoys me when I read forums where people (mostly) suggest alternative applications as the solution to getting a certain programme working is the fact that they are not addressing the actual question. Often the question of how to get a certain / specific application to work is misinterpreted by many as how to achieve what this program normally does [in Ubuntu]. In all except the rarest cases the person asking actually MEANT what he asked, unless you have a good reason to assume otherwise.
Therefore, in discussions as these, please refrain from (only) suggesting alternative apps and especially from demanding the subject to justify his/her motive to use the app as this will only cause irritation and doesn't actually solve anything. Alternative software is only a real 'solution' when all else fails and there is absolutely no way to get the app working.

I have also attempted to install MS Paint in Ubuntu 10.04, but to no avail. I have a VirtualBox VM with Windows 7 on it, so theoretically I could just run Paint in there, but I hate having to use the shared folder all the time and the clipboard from the host machine to the guest machine (even though I've installed Guest Additions in the guest machine) doesn't transfer image data.

When I installed mspaint.exe first, I got the same error message:

joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42u.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status c0000135The solution seemed simple; just get a copy of MFC42u.dll in Wine's system32 folder. That's what I did. Then I got a whole string of errors:

joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
err:module:import_dll Library KERNELBASE.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Interlocked-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MFC42u.DLL") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42u.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status c0000135These are all just references to DLLs missing. Since my VM has Win 7 on it I just located each of these DLLs in the VM and copied them into the Wine System 32 directory. When I did that and I tried to run MS Paint again, I got this:

joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe
fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation (0x00000032,0x32fad4,0x00000004,(nil)) stub
wine: Call from 0x7bc3e3b0 to unimplemented function ntdll.dll.RtlCreateTagHeap, aborting
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNELBASE.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mspaint.exe" failed, status 80000100I'm at a dead end here ... is there anyone who can tell me where I went wrong? And more importantly, how to fix this?
And just to be frank; 'just use Gimp' is not a solution to getting MS Paint to work in Wine:-?

All help deeply appreciated:D

[EDIT] It must also be added that I have also followed lkraemer (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=365139)'s steps but that didn't work either.

[sportfreak2020]

any updates on this thing .. i m basically stuck at this API-MS-WINE-CORE-* .DLL errors .. google hasnt been friendly today !!

[lkraemer]

For those having trouble, I believe you mis-read the copying directions.
I've updated the instructions to be more specific. If you double check
what you did versus what should have been done, I think you can get it working.
You can check your history file to see what commands were executed.

I just installed MSPaint on Debian 6.0 with Wine 1.1.42 and it works fine.

Before you create the launcher use the following Terminal command to see
if it functions.

wine "/home/youruserlogin/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MSPaint/mspaint.exe"


instead of this:

joshuajones@joshuajones-desktop:~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32$ wine mspaint.exe



lkraemer

[enduser]

ok so i followed all the directions and got lots of dlls in place.
I have a few questions and am not afraid to break my build

First off. Yes MS paint has some very basic functions which have not been adequately adapted into anything else like the background transparency toggle, the ability to select (screen capture) from a selected area and move it (this would be like select area float area move area merge layer in gimp: when in paint its a simple drag drop). Also gimp only became tolerable after i realized i should save it as a bitmap (lossless compression) allowing me to see a preview instead of another weasel. until these minor ease of use items are properly reconciled I will always prefer paint.

1 does it matter if I copy the vista system 32 files and vista paint instead of the xp ones? (I think wine would be configured to the ME version then?)

2 I do not understand the latter part of #4 and #5. I made the folder but not the drwxr... part I assume that is something to use in the terminal. is it a straight copy paste? I am new to linux. I know its changing read write access but what is all the after larry larry stuff?

Yes its very simple stuff for linux veterans, but no I don't know how to do it without asking yet. Is it just terminal Su password paste? or do I need to path each file in order to change it?

Could you break #4 up into logical steps to follow with the //commentary//?

Thanks

[gyyug78fg87ogguiioioioioi]

GNOME paint is microsoft paint clone for linux

http://gnome-paint.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/Captura_de_tela.png