I never noticed before but I am seeing the same blank vs All files display
with Lyx 2.3.2 with Ubuntu 18.04
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 13:35, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/19 12:50 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On 2/28/19 10:39 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:36 AM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >> Interesting. What version of Qt do you use (4.8.7 here), and what
> >> desktop environment for Sarah (MATE here)? Did you compile LyX yourself
> >> or get a binary somewhere?
> > The desktop environment is Cinnamon. But it's not Cinnamon vs.
> > MATE--I just logged into MATE and it's got the same issue here.
> Does your file dialog look the same in MATE, or does it look like mine?
> In particular, in MATE does the file filter ("Files of type:") show the
> full details ("LaTeX (plain) (*.tex)")?
> >
> > Here is the LyX build Info, in case that helps:
> >
> > LyX 2.3.2 (2018-12-08)
> > Configuration
> > Host type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> > Special build flags: build=release std-regex use-hunspell use-aspell
> use-enchant
> > Bundled libraries: (none)
> > C++ Compiler: g++ (5.4.0)
> > C++ Compiler flags: -O2 -std=c++14
> > C++ Compiler user flags:
> > Linker flags:
> > Linker user flags:
> > Qt Frontend:
> > Qt version: 4.8.7
> > Packaging: posix
> > LyX binary dir: /usr/bin
> > LyX files dir: /usr/share/lyx
> That's an exact match to what I have.
> >
> > I cannot remember how I installed LyX originally, to be honest. But I
> > have this in my var/lib/apt/lists:
> >
> > ppa.launchpad.net_lyx-devel_release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_InRelease
> >
> ppa.launchpad.net_lyx-devel_release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_binary-amd64_Packages
> >
> ppa.launchpad.net_lyx-devel_release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_binary-i386_Packages
> >
> ppa.launchpad.net_lyx-devel_release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_i18n_Translation-en
> >
> ppa.launchpad.net_lyx-devel_release_ubuntu_dists_xenial_main_source_Sources
> >
> > Which I think means that at some point I added Liviu's PPA and have
> > been just getting it with apt updates.
> I use Liviu's PPA, and I have all the same files except the last one. I
> install binaries from the PPA.
> >
> >> Your file dialog looks substantially different from mine (screen shot
> >> attached). Some of that may be MATE v. Cinnamon (or whatever you're
> >> using), but I find it interesting that your filter drop-down just says
> >> "LaTeX" whereas mine is specific as to the "flavor" of LaTeX. The window
> >> title is properly specific (and matches what I get). The reason I'm so
> >> interested in the filter button is that I'm wondering whether the filter
> >> you are getting is incorrect (for instance, fails to specify .tex as the
> >> extension it wants).
> > I am fairly sure this is a virgin install, without any configuration
> > tinkering--I don't do much personalizing because I switch between
> > machines so much.
> >
> > Maria
> >
> >
> I wonder if this could be a MIME-type issue? If you go to the relevant
> directory in your file manager (Caja in my case), right click one of the
> .tex files and click on "Properties", what type is it? On my system, the
> MIME type is "TeX document (text/x-tex)".
>
> Paul
>
>
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
