That seems to be a feature rather than a bug. el
On 2018-03-20 04:22 , Steve Hnizdur wrote: > Hi > > I upgraded Lyx to the shiny new 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 the other day and > the first time hit the "eyes" icon to compile a document I got the Lyx > Security Warning > > "The following LaTeX backend has been configured to allow execution of > external programs for any document: > pdflatex --shell-escape $$i > This is a dangerous configuration. Please, consider using the support > offered by LyX for allowing this privilege only to documents that > actually need it, instead." > > The configuration has not been changed by me and is therefore the > standard delivered out of the box Lyx configuration. > > OK so what is the support offered by Lyx as mentioned? Also as this is > under the control of Lyx why is it there at all? > > Cheers
