I recently changed my WM, and since then Anki crashes quite often. Sometimes, with this error: $ anki Qt warning: QApplication: invalid style override 'adwaite-dark' passed, ignoring it. Available styles: Windows, Fusion mpv not found, reverting to mplayer File "runanki.py", line 4, in <module> …

nouveau is known to be buggy, and you may have more luck with software rendering in the preferences screen.

Unfortunately, it is already configured as Software.

Not sure why you’d be getting that message in that case. Maybe installing nvidia’s drivers will help?

My new WM is Sway, which works under Wayland and does not work too well with NVidia proprietary drivers, unfortunately (although NVidia has promised improving compatibility), so for now I cannot use them.

I am afraid I cannot try. This version of Anki is not packaged in my distribution (NixOS), and the packaging of Anki seems quite complicated ( as seems to indicate this issue ), and I don’t have enough time nor experience to do it by myself. I could try to copy the package for an other source, but the…

The packaged version is mostly self-contained, so it’s worth at least trying it.

Now that I’ve mentioned this issue on an other thread, I remember where we were stuck: at the time, I couldn’t try out the newest Qt6 versions because they were not packaged. Well, now I can and it still hard crashes…

Anki crashes or freezes randomly

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dae November 11, 2021, 10:48pm 6

Maybe the qt6 build will fare better? New toolkit and packaging test (round 2)

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