Tim Michelsen wrote:
Hello,
I discovered that copying insets with normal procedures either through
the Edit menu or keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C -> CTRL+V) doesn't work on
my installation (details see below).
Steps to repoduce:
1) Insert any ERT inset
2) insert a Lyx note
3) select the ERT inset
4) copy the selected inset like mentioned above
5) try to paste the inset in the note => this fails for me. I can only
copy/paste insets in the old unix style: selecte with right mouse
button and paste insets with the middle mouse button.
Is this intended by the developers?
Do others who work on Ubuntu have the same problem?
Is this a bug?
Shall I file a report?
Is it a bug of the Ubuntu package or Lyx?
I think copying&pasting insets should works in the same way as copying
normal text in Lyx.
This all works for me using 1.5.5svn on Fedora 8 under KDE. But there
are some known (and, I think, not very well understood) problems with
cut-n-paste under X, so you may be seeing one of those. If you have
another window manager than whatever you're using, you might try it
under that just to see what happens. And you might try grabbing current
svn and compiling that. It's generally pretty simple to do, once you
have the devel packages you need installed. You'll need subversion, the
autotools stuff and, of course, the gcc compiler, as well as qt4-devel,
or whatever it's called under Ubuntu. Then just do this:
mkdir /home/you/lyx-devel/
svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/
/home/you/lyx-devel/
cd /home/you/lyx-devel/
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-debug --disable-stdlib-debug --enable-static
--disable-pch #or whatever you want
make
sudo make install
where this last will install to /usr/local/. (Presumably Ubuntu has the
main LyX package under /usr/.) Then just /usr/local/bin/lyx and off you go.
Richard
