MS de-configures itself everytime I open!
(Installed in Mint Serena 18.1, 64-bit) This happens in 2.0 and 2.1; It opens with everything giant size. I go to Preferences and change icons from 28-24 to 14-10. Then set score default display to 25%. Select not to display "My first score", no welcome center. Hit "Apply" exit MS. Open, everything is reverted to what it was before (changes did not 'stick') I tried mscore -x, --gui-scaling 1 in terminal.
Hit enter, MS opens up with small icons, but giant score. I close, open, and everything is back to giant.
Through Package Manager, uninstall completely. Re-install, same problem when opening. In another installation of Mint 18.1, use package manager to install MS 2.0. Everything is perfect!
If I were willing to re-install the first Mint 18.1 (along with re-installing all those other programs!) I'm sure that it would solve the problem. But isn't there a less extreme way?
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Do you have authority to write in the musescore folder?
In reply to Do you have authority to by mike320
Yep! Just call me "Sudo"
In reply to Yep! Just call me "Sudo" by docterdave
Actually, if you're using sudo when running MuseScore, that could potentially be the problem. As I recall there can be inconsistencies in how the user id is managed, where you are partially you and partially root. I'm fuzzy on the details, and my experience really predates Linux (going back to BSD, and HP-UX), but my sense has long been that it is better to run as a normal user, or actually log in as root, when running programs that need to access user info.
In any case, try running with "-d" to see if you get any useful info output to console on exit. Could be MuseScore is actually crashing - there are known issues on some Linux configurations where this can happen on exit due to some sort of Qt glitch. Or it could be you'll see an error about the preference file. If you get a clean exit, see if you can find the preferences file and check whether it is updated. Then we'd know if it's failing to write it or failing to read it.
Maybe a "sudo su -" would help? (to get a full root environment)