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Hi

I used to have a splash screen when I started qbittorrent. Now there is only an empty area where the picture of the splash screen used to be.
Qbittorrent otherwise seem to be working ok though.

This is what I get when the program is started from konsole:

[ole@localhost ~]$ qbittorrent
Couldn't set environment variable...
Peer ID: -qB2920-
HTTP user agent is qBittorrent v2.9.2
[ole@localhost ~]$



This is my gear:
Processor  2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
Memory  1813MB (630MB used)
Operating System  PCLinuxOS - KDE


Any idea ?

OW

If you go to Preferences and click on the Behaviour section, is the box checked for "Show Splash screen on startup"?

I personally disable splash screens, when I can, since it shortens the amount of time needed to start the application.

Hi pragmaticenigma

Thank You much for reply.

If you go to Preferences and click on the Behaviour section, is the box checked for "Show Splash screen on startup"?

It was checked from the start. - I have unchecked it now, because I think You are right about start up time, though it gives no solution to the missing splash screen. 

OW 

reinstall and/or upgrade to latest version?

If your using your distribution's program repository, it's possible who ever maintains the repository forgot to include the images or installed the image to a location qbittorrent is not looking at for the image (I know this is very common in Fedora .)

If your compiling from source, you may need to locate the image in the source folder and move it to the appropriate location.

With Ubuntu, I use the stable hydrogen PPA because it has the latest version and the packages include all parts as the author intended.  PCLinux appears to use APT, so you may be able to install the PPA to PCLinux and get up-to-date installations of qbittorrent. (You will have to search the web for instructions on using Ubuntu's PPAs with PCLinux)

Hi, I had your same problem and also the icon in the tray was missing.
Using the options for Behavior both reappeared.
You can also look in the file qbittorent.conf in ~/.config/qbittorrent-config.

Bye

Hi, I was too optimistic.
The problem is stil there, sometime the splash screen is displayed, but most of the times is a blank squarethat is painted with the real image when the main window of qbittorrent is diplayed.
My version 3.18, ubuntu 12.04.

This maybe a sideffect of how the splashscreen is implemented. Basically the startup code creates the splash and iterates the event loop my one iteration. This is enough for the splash to drawn on screen. Then it continues to setup the rest of the windows/states/setttings/buttons/load torrents/etc. During this, the event loop usually doesn't run. Which means if the splash gets a "redraw" message from the system it will not be processed by qt until the event loop gets started.

This is a hypothesis though...