Hello
I'm using the 4.2.8 appimage on Zen-arch (not zen kernel) with Mate desktop. Appimage is running great, but I am trying to stop the splash screen. I can't find how to add -nosplash anywhere that works, and then saw a thread saying to edit kritarc. I've chosen the setting to hide the splash:
[SplashScreen]
HideSplashAfterStartup=true
... but the splash still runs. Is there a file somewhere else that needs changing, or is it because of running the appimage? The kritarc file is the gateway file no matter whether running krita as appimage or installed directly on the system? I can't see anything in Krita's Settings that would turn off the splash screen.
Thanks.

That is an old setting from before the welcome screen existed and it would hide the splash screen after Krita had fully started, not while it was starting.

The "--nosplash" (not: two minus signs, not one, this is a general gnu/unix convention, one minus sign is for one-letter options that maybe combined, like tar -xvzf, two minus signs for spelled out options) is a command line option, so you start Krita from a terminal or a script like:

krita --nosplash

If that doesn't work for you, you're doing something wrong, because I just tested it, and it does work.

boudewijn wrote: ... "--nosplash" (two minus signs, not one ...

Thank you very much for response. Good to learn about the '-xvzf' too. I've added --nosplash into the appimage launcher's Properties, and it works perfectly! Thank you for including the option, and for all your work on Krita. Have a great New Year and all the best for 2020.