On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:01:14 Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:56:17AM -0600, Stefano Franchi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have been experiencing some serious problems with LyX lately, after > > my upgrade to 1.6.x. This is what happens: > > > > 1. I am happily typing away when suddenly there is no ouptu on the > > screen any longer. 2. However, LyX is not completely crashed. I can > > still issue control commands. In particular, I can save my work with > > Ctrl-S, and quit with Ctrl-Q. 3. The interface, however, is > > completely unresponsive: the various panes are not updated, scrolling > > does not work, etc. As expected, if I change to a different workspace > > and come back, Lyx's windows is not refreshed and becomes blank. > > > > > > As I said, the behavior is not *that* annoying, since no work gets > > lost. However, it seems rather serious and happens repeatedly. I > > have experienced it intermittently for several weeks now---a few times > > a week on average. But I cannot reproduce it consistently. Is this a > > known bug? If not, anby suggestion on what I could do in order to pin > > it down? > > > > I am on Linux/Kubuntu (Kde 4.2), running LyX 1.6.1 > > Is this reproducible on an other window manager? > > Last time I had a look at KDE 4.2 I encountered massive redrawing > problems (with other applications). And that was less than a week ago. > > Andre'
Well, I didn't try with other another wiondow manager because I have not found out how to reproduce the crash. As I said, it keeps happening, but it is (so far) unpredictable. However, it is not limited to KDE 4.2. I just upgraded from 4.1 and I have been having this problem for several weeks. it may be KDE 4.x related, though. S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] College Station, TX 77843-4237
