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Gephi freezes in welcome screen during "Initializing..." when opening .gephi project file

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Description

When I open a .gephi file with multiple workspaces while Gephi directly from the filesystem while Gephi is not running, Gephi hangs in the welcome screen.
This bug can be circumvented by opening Gephi from Gephi.exe and then navigating to said project using the Open... dialogue.
The size of the graphs should not be a problem since the size of the project is a mere 115 kB.

## Expected Behavior
A .gephi project file can be opened by double-clicking the file in file explorer.

## Current Behavior
Windows 10, Gephi 0.10.1
When I double-click a .gephi file, Gephi opens, loads to the welcome dialogue and then proceeds to not react to any input.
The process is not unresponsive as per task manager and Windows but fails to react to any input.
It has to be terminated through the task manager (not even possible from the Gephi window).

This behaviour was been confirmed by my colleague on an independent PC (Win 11).

## Workaround
Open Gephi via Gephi.exe and then open the project file using the Open... dialogue.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Prepare a .gephi project.
2. Close Gephi.
3. Double-click the project file.

## Context
I tried a clean install (with deleting user data).
I also tried increasing the minimum and maximum memory allocated to Gephi in \etc\gephi.conf using commands "-J-Xms1400m -J-Xmx4096m". These seem to have no effect, at least as per what the task manager can view about the memory allocation to the Gephi task.

## Your Environment

* Version used: Gephi 0.10.1
* Operating System: Win 10
* CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
* GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Gephi shows this as GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2, OpenGL2 4.6.0 NVIDIA 451.67)
* RAM: 16 GB

I did not include a logging file because I did not find any directions on that in https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Troubleshooting.

I include the file which fails to load for me, though.
[Gephi_is_not_loading_from_this.zip](https://github.com/gephi/gephi/files/11477129/Gephi_is_not_loading_from_this.zip)

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