Bug#1006697: inkscape: Inkscape doesn't open GUI unless option -g is added
On Sat, 05 Mar 2022 22:56:47 +0100 Krzysztof Sobiecki
<sobkas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 19:20:14 +0100 Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 06:21:20PM +0100, Krzysztof Sobiecki wrote:
> > > I have installed Inkscape. But when tried to run it, nothing
shows
> up.
> > > Including right-click on svg file and choosing Inkscape,
> > > using Inkscape icon in Gnome, running Inkscape from command line.
> > > Only thing that helped was adding -g in command line(or to
> .desktop).
> > > I have deleted Inkscape configuration(.config/.local) but it
didn't
> help.
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > I don't see that, so I'd like to ask you:
> >
> > 1) if you just run `inkscape`, what's the output?
> There is no output, it just exits with 0
> > 2) if you see an actual crash, please run that under gdb (with the
-
> dbgsym installed)
> It exits with 0, so there is no crash
> > 3) can you also reproduce this with version 1.1.1-3 ?
> I'm going to do it a bit later
>
> What I have found is that when I start Inkscape it just quits.
> So I decided to trace places where _with_gui is set to false.
> In file inkscape-application.cpp line 1306(big GUI and Shell comment)
> there is a big if of command line options that turns off gui.
> So I checked what options are used that cause gui to be turned off:
> https://paste.debian.net/1233131/ ;(1 signals that option is present)
> As you can see there are a few of them.
> But I didn't set any command line options. It looks like they just
> appear out of nowhere. I even created dummy user and logged in as it.
> It produced same results. So I don't think it's problem with user
> configuration.
>
Now list with actual values of options:
https://paste.debian.net/1233151/
Fact that they are all 0 is even stranger.
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Krzysztof Sobiecki
sobkas@gmail.com
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