musscore 3.6.2 dysfunctional on arch linux
I cannot get musescore to run on my arch linux install.
upon, booting, the startcenter loads normally, but the musescore main window appears much to big and fails to load any textures properly. I also outputs a long string of error messages:
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
OpenType support missing for "Lohit Hindi", script 11
qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 676, resource id: 14680613, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0
qrc:/qml/palettes/PaletteTree.qml:772:5: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/Palette.qml:766:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/Palette.qml:766:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/Palette.qml:766:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/Palette.qml:766:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/Palette.qml:766:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
qrc:/qml/palettes/PalettesWidgetHeader.qml:225:5: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo() { ... }
fish: Job 1, 'sudo mscore' terminated by signal SIGTERM (Polite quit request)
Comments
Would this be running the AppImage?
In reply to Would this be running the… by jeetee
No, however I encounter similar behavior using the appimage
Those QML messages are just warnings (and there an archived PR to cure them, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/7388, distribution maintainers may pull and use it, if not linking/building MuseScore against Qt 5.9 but rather 5.15)
Why running
mscorewithsudo? Who or what isfish?In reply to Those QML messages are just… by Jojo-Schmitz
Fish is simply part of my terminal. It doesn't interact with musescore aside from delivering the error messages to my knowledge.
I only ran sudo on a hunch that maybe musescore couldn't access a file or something silly. I forgot to not to this when I ran it to get the output I posted here
Indeed, you should not normally be running MuseScore with sudo, that could be the problem right there. But also, I don't see the output I expect to see from the supported AppImage build of MuseScore - you should see two lines telling you where it is loading a couple of specific libraries from. So my guess is you are using some unsupported third party build. These are generally known to often not work well - building MsueScore is a complex process and it seems a lot of third parties get some detail wrong or other that ends up causing problems. Better to use the supported AppImage you get from this site.
In reply to Indeed, you should not… by Marc Sabatella
Running the official appimage with or without sudo yielded similar results. I tried these other seemingly random things to see if they would fix it by pure luck. They did not.
I have included with this response a screen captiure of what the issue looks like along with the console output when running the official appimage non sudo
attempt 2
In reply to Running the official… by JustMike05
this:
[802241:802289:0331/043502.835446:ERROR:backend_impl.cc(1394)] Unable to map Index file
does not stem from MuseScore, MuseScore doesn't have a backend_impl.cc in its sources.
The js messages after that stem from MuseScore's start center, use -w to disable it.
In reply to this: [802241:802289:0331… by Jojo-Schmitz
While using the w flag clear the error in the terminal, the issue with the app itself, as shown in the screenshot, persist
In reply to While using the w flag clear… by JustMike05
OK, that excludes WebView to be the culprit then
Any better output when using
-d(to add some debug output)?Are you by any change using a TV screen as your computer monitor?
In reply to OK, that exludes WebView to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Here is the output from using the debug flag. I am not using a TV, but i am using a decently large 27inch 1440p monitor
In reply to Here is the output from… by JustMike05
Marc has helped me solve the problem as noted below. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me!
In reply to Running the official… by JustMike05
As far as I can tell those are just normal warnings. Can you be more specific about what actually goes wrong? You mention something about "textures" but I don't know what those are. If the window is too big for your taste, you can resize it. maybe you really mean the contents are too big? That would generally mean the system is not report your display resolution properly, so try specifying it manually via "-D xxx", where "xxx" is the actual resolution in DPI.
In reply to As far as I can tell those… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, sorry if I was to vague. I will include some screenshots to hopefully show what is happening.
In words, when I launch the appimage, the start center appears normal, but the main windows is basically 2 colors and the entire screen acts as a "new score" button. If I try to change the window size, it becomes solid grey, but still acts as a big "new score" button.
additionally, when I try to make a new score, the selection of key signatures does not appear.
I will try to -D flag and, if it works, I will reply here.
In reply to As far as I can tell those… by Marc Sabatella
specifying the DPI worked perfectly. Thank you so much for your help. I hope my screen shots and descriptions will be able to help future people with this problem.
Just in case it may help others , I was using Garuda linux (an arch based version) on a 1440p 27 inch display.
I hope this may help diagnose the problems for other who have it.