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Background wallpaper not taken into account after restart (Linux appimage)
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Description
Issue type
UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)
Description with steps to reproduce
- Choose a background (or paper) wallpaper via Preferences/appearances
- Close MuseScore
- The choice is saved in MuseScore.ini, e.g.
canvas\foreground\wallpaper=/tmp/.mount_mscorenIIT9A/share/mscore4portable-4.4/wallpapers/paper5.png
(note the hardcoded mountpoint) - Start MS: the chosen background is not applied. The appimage mountpoint is different, but the ini file still has the initial hardcoded mountpoint.
Supporting files, videos and screenshots
Discussed in https://musescore.org/en/4.4.3-rc
What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?
4.4.3 nightly
Regression
Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken
Operating system
Ubuntu 22.04LTS
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- I have attempted to identify the root problem as concisely as possible, and have used minimal reproducible examples where possible
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the restart flow on Ubuntu 22.04 with the Linux AppImage, then inspect how the canvas\foreground\wallpaper value is written to and read from MuseScore.ini. Done means a selected paper or background wallpaper is still applied after restarting when the AppImage mountpoint changes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100