QPrompt AppImage crashes after a few seconds

[karls0]

Bug Description
Qprompt 1.1.6 opens and shows text and settings from last session with 1.1.3. After 5-6 seconds the app closes no matter if I do something or not.

Steps to Reproduce
1.download AppImage of QPrompt 1.1.6
2.make executable
3.start app

Expected behavior
app should work as QPrompt 1.1.3 did

Detailed description of display configuration (if applicable)
NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] (rev a1)
2 monitors

Screenshots (optional)

Device information

• QPrompt Version: 1.1.6 AppImage
• Operating System: Lnux Mint 22

Additional context
console-output_qprompt1.1.6.txt

[karls0]

Installation from Mint-Repo works!

[Cuperino]

What a strange issue! I'm happy to see the installation from the repo works well. The repo is shipping 1.1.6, so you're not missing out in any features from the latest AppImage.

Thank you for providing that console output, it's exactly what I was about to ask. Unfortunately this output doesn't tell me much of why QPrompt is crashing. The issues that are logged should all be unrelated to the crash.

I suspect there might be an incompatibility in the application settings that is causing some unexpected behavior to occur. Try deleting the QPrompt's settings: ~/.config/Cuperino/qprompt.conf or renaming the file to something else if you'd like to preserve them.

That .conf file is just a text file you can change manually if needed. I suspect a change I did regarding how either reading region placement, pointers, or screen projections are stored might be at fault here.

If the issue isn't that, then there might be some incompatibility between the AppImage and core libraries shipped by the latest Linux Mint... That seems unlikely because we would've seen more from the console output.

[karls0]

Hi Javier,
I deleted the conf-file and restarted AppImage 1.1.6 with no luck. It closed after 6 seconds. Just to be sure I tried AppImage 1.1.3, which worked as expected.
Since 1.1.6 from the repo is OK, I don't need the AppImage and (for me) the case can be closed.
Thank you for your work and dedication!
Karl

[Cuperino]

Thank you for trying. I'll be releasing new installers soon. Hopefully the issue goes away with them.

[videosmith]

Hardware vs. Software acceleration?

[Cuperino]

That is a good hypothesis because we've had early AppImages fail to hook into hardware acceleration. However that wasn't the case for v1.1.6. It could've been specific to Nvidia, but it's not worth testing until we have a new AppImage to test against, since the old pipeline isn't working and out of date.

[Cuperino]

Hi @karls0 I've made a new AppImage with our new tech stack. Would you mind testing to see whether the crash still occurs on your machine with this new version?

I can't upload the AppImage here, but you may download it from this Patreon post. You log-in and be subscribed as a free Patreon member in order to access it. Feel free unsubscribe after if you're not interested in receiving QPrompt development status updates.