Re: Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux

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On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:19:51 -0700 (PDT), Steve Mysterious wrote:
>
> Mint 20.2 Uma 
> Cinnamon 5.0.7
> Calibre 6.5.0
>
>
> I upgraded to Calibre 6.5.0.
>
> When I try to launch the eBook reader the window comes up, but just hangs during loading.
>
> I went to a forum for Calbire and the developer told me I needed to
> update my GPU drivers or turn off hardware acceleration for the
> webengine:
>
>
> QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu" calibre 
>
>
> As luck would have it, the update manager updated my GPU drivers today, but still no joy.
>
> I can launch calibre from the command line with the string above and
> have everything work, but I would like to be able to double click on
> an eBook as before and have it load in the eBook viewer.
>
> Is there a place where I can put that environmental setting quoted above?

Try to open a terminal and start Calibre there. You might print something
which names the cause for the hanging. Search for that in a search
engine. If no luck, may be others can help here.

Or try another reader. May be
<https://itsfoss.com/best-ebook-readers-linux/> helps. Don't use ocular,
as it's a KDE app and might want to install half of the KDE environment.
-- 
Andreas

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Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux Steve Mysterious <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2022-09-20 14:19 -0700
  Re: Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-09-20 17:58 -0400
  Re: Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux stepore <stepore@be.here.now> - 2022-09-20 19:10 -0700
  Re: Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-09-21 09:03 +0200
  Re: Launching Calibre 6.5.0 In Linux Travis <tdtooke@gmail.com> - 2022-10-14 20:34 -0700

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