Unusually long launch time

[jackj1]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I searched the existing issues and did not find anything similar.

Current Behavior

Program takes anywhere from 2 seconds to up to a minute to launch after execution

Expected Behavior

To launch much quicker

Steps To Reproduce

1. execute program
2. launch is usually around 15 seconds, but is occaisionally instantaneous or up to a minute before the main window or the taskbar applet show up

Environment

Program Version 3.3.3
Program Compiled on Feb 19 2023 at 21:31:29
Built Against SDL 2.26.3
Running With SDL 2.26.3
Using Qt 5.15.8
Using Event Handler: XTest
Compositor type: tty
Host OS: artix Version: unknown Architecture: x86_64

Anything else?

passing --log-level verbose doesn't show any unexpected behaviour, but worth mentioning that the line it hangs on is 🟢INFO "Using XTest as the event generator."

Here are the relevant lines of the log:

❗WARN  QCommandLineParser: option not defined: "next"
⚪VERBOSE       AntiMicroX version: 3.3.3 Type: Release
⚪VERBOSE       SDL version: 2.26.3 (Compiled with: 2.26.3)
⚪VERBOSE       Host OS: artix Version: unknown Architecture: x86_64
🟢INFO  "Using XTest as the event generator."
🟢INFO  Created new GameController:
                        Index:            1

[pktiuk]

Could you also get logs with debug level (maybe app will freeze on another log)?

Could you also test it with appimage version?

[jackj1]

Sure thing, here is the debug log, in this case it took about 22 seconds from execution to launch. antimicrox.log

And I've tested the appimage version, it works much faster, launches in under half a second. i'll attach the debug log for that aswell just incase comparing them helps you. antimicrox-appimage.log

EDIT: Just realised I havent mentioned that the version I'm having trouble with is from the AUR, installed with yay.

[pktiuk]

I think the problem is with that SDL version, not with the app itself.

[jackj1]

I downgraded my sdl version back to match the one in the appimage, the problem persists. antimicrox.log

[pktiuk]

You can also try to extract antimicrox binary from AppImage ./AntiMicroX-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-mount and replace the one installed by your package manager. And if everything will work well after replacement, then it means that package in your distro repo is broken (and you have to contact with package maintainer). But if everything will be fixed, then it means, that another dependency in your OS is broken (this is also out of my scope).

BTW, You should know that I do not support packages from atrix. The only supported ones are: deb, AppImage and Flatpak

[pktiuk]

If you will contact maintainer you could also let him know, that she should use compilation flag ANTIMICROX_PKG_VERSION to properly mark source of the package.