: Annoying GIMP issue (fill bucket with a circle-slash icon on the cursor) I am trying to bucket fill a layer, but I get this crazy cursor I cant get rid of. I think its because I have something

@Phylliss782

I don't think this is the issue OP experienced but the issue I had seems related. GIMP can save a selection area to file. If the file was saved after selecting a single pixel on a large image, the next time it's opened every paint bucket, pencil, brush, etc operation won't work on any layer (except for that single pixel which you might not notice). Just select or deselect all.

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@Nimeshi706

Michael Schumacher was right about the root cause. The layer has a fixed size. So the correct answer, at least for Gimp 2.8 is to select the layer, then select "Layer"->"Layer To Image size" from the menu.

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@Kevin459

I had this same problem, and it was driving me insane. Make sure you have "Background" selected as the layer you are working on. Once I selected it, I could fill in my rectangle select.

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@Mendez620

Here's the answer you're most likely looking for:

Scenario: say in GIMP you have a logo image, you increase the Canvas, center the logo inside the enlarged canvas, and you want to fill the extra canvas with an eye-dropper color. However, the paint bucket shows a black circle with line through it indicating no-can-do.

Do this: from menu, select "Layer", then "New from visible". Now you can paint bucket fill.

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@Deb5748823

The circle-slash is a indicator that I cannot do that operation as yet in the part where the cursor is currently. I need to move the cursor to a part of the image where it is allowed.

Sometimes the select none option is not visible. God knows why GIMP would not allow Select None, weird. But in such cases, select all, select none works, but sometimes does not. That said, the root cause of that circle-slash is known now.

For downvoters, Its not possible to get a image of the cursor. Hence the cryptic question. I hope you will change your mind.

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