Linux: Drag thumbs to Gimp doesn not work

[Akovia]

Can't drag thumbs to gimp. I can drag to other xnview windows, but fails on gimp. I get the following 3 messages when trying.

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Opening 'file://media/Elements/Backups/H-Drive/Graphics/Anime-Manga%20Graphics/Anime%20Art/%5BSeries%5D/Karas/CoolAnime.jpg' failed:

Could not open 'file://media/Elements/Backups/H-Drive/Graphics/Anime-Manga%20Graphics/Anime%20Art/%5BSeries%5D/Karas/CoolAnime.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory

Calling error for procedure 'file-jpeg-load':
Could not open 'file://media/Elements/Backups/H-Drive/Graphics/Anime-Manga%20Graphics/Anime%20Art/%5BSeries%5D/Karas/CoolAnime.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory

I can drag from other programs to gimp, so I'm pretty certain the problem is not there.

[xnview]

I can't reproduce on ubuntu 10
ubuntu 12?

[oops66]

I can't reproduce on ubuntu 10
ubuntu 12?

Hello, ...FYI, I can't reproduce too ... here: XnViewMP 0.64 Linux X64 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - X64

[m.Th.]

I don't know where's the problem. But I find very suspect that %5BSeries%5D chars...

Put your jpegs in a plain-vanilla directory (eg. 'test' in your root) and try to drag the images from there. It works?

[Akovia]

I don't know where's the problem. But I find very suspect that %5BSeries%5D chars...

Put your jpegs in a plain-vanilla directory (eg. 'test' in your root) and try to drag the images from there. It works?

Tried from my home folder 1 level deep. No special characters or spaces in path or filename.

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Opening 'file://home/akovia/Graphics/gimp-devel-logo.png' failed:

Could not open 'file://home/akovia/Graphics/gimp-devel-logo.png' for reading: No such file or directory

[xnview]

and on other program?

[Akovia]

and on other program?

Not at home for the weekend but I could always drag from my file manager Thunar and from Chrome or Opera browsers without a problem.

[xnview]

i means from XnView into another app?

[Akovia]

i means from XnView into another app?

Inkscape:

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Failed to load the requested file /My-Media/Anime/Karas/logoHD2.png

I can drag to chrome browser and thunar though.
Gimp & Inkscape are usually the only programs I'm dragging pictures to.

I did some more investigating and it seems it might be related to the setPathname variable...

For home folders it uses a single forward slash:

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setPathname </home/akovia/Pictures/Funny/>

For any drives under media it uses double forward slashes:

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setPathname <//media/My-Media/>

It was failing under home folders last time I checked, but now it's working every time. Even with filenames that include spaces, but it has never worked for any file under my /media directory.
Let me know if you want my full command line log with it working and failing in the different directories.

[xnview]

mounted volume?

[Akovia]

mounted volume?

Yeah, everything under /media is mounted.

[xnview]

mounted volume?

Yeah, everything under /media is mounted.

I've tried on ubuntu 12&13 from /media, and no problem

[Akovia]

Thanks for checking but I can't imagine what could be wrong with my system. I can drag just fine into gimp from other image programs.
gthumb
gwenview
geeqie

Is there any debugging procedures you can recommend? I really want to get this working if at all possible.