Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview
Paul A. Rubin said on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 09:40:07 -0500 >Very odd. The config script should check for all the viewers in the >list, and all the ones it finds should appear in the select box for >the corresponding file type. That works on my system (Linux Mint); I >get three viewers sandwiched between None and Custom. > >Might be worth filing a bug report. > >Paul Thanks Paul, I don't file bug reports anymore. Every project has its own bug report software, with its own questions, many of which I can't answer, at its own URL that I need to locate. And on all too many projects, when you look at the bug list, a lot of them are over a year old, marked unimportant, or marked wontfix. If this isn't happening to anyone else, then there's no need to fix anything; I fixed my copy. If other people start reporting it, everyone can look back at this thread and see a very thorough symptom description from me. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview
Kornel Benko said on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:58:56 +0100 >Am Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:53:34 -0500 >schrieb Steve Litt : > >> Here's the thing. LyX exhibited this symptom for *every* previewer >> except for qpdfview. When I temporarily uninstalled qpdfview so it >> couldn't be found, it used a second viewer, and no attempt to use >> any third viewer would displace the second viewer. LyX was obviously >> going down a list and using the first viewer, on that list, that it >> found. I found just such a list in reconfigure.py, reordered the >> list, and changed it to use mupdf, and it used mupdf. >> >> So until somebody can show me a way to select a viewer to assign to >> the eyeballs, my conclusion is the only way to set the eyeballs >> viewer is to go into reconfigure.py and rearrange the viewer array >> argument of CheckViewer() in cases where the filetype is PDF. >> >> SteveT > >You could check your new lyxrc.default for all lines containing "mupdf" >and add them to the file 'preferences'. This file is not changed by >reconfigure. Any entry in preferences will be preferenced over the >ones in lyxrc.default. Thanks Kornel, Before making a move like that, I'd need to see some documentation spelling out exactly how to do it. There are many different definitions of "copy a line"; where, in what context, etc. I already spent 6 hours getting past this problem, and I don't want to spend another 6 because I blew up my LyX system doing the wrong thing. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview
On 11/27/21 8:53 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Paul A. Rubin said on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:57:57 -0500 On 11/27/21 4:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Armed with the knowledge that reconfigure.py writes to lyxrc.defaults, and the fact that I could find no other way to change the PDF viewer, I edited reconfigure.py, changing the order of the viewers in the array argument to subroutine CheckViewer(), *only* for a filetype of PDF. Sure enough it worked, giving me the first viewer, in the array, that was on my path. Was that viewer mupdf? Since the config script looks for mupdf and apparently wasn't finding it (?), I'm wondering if the problem isn't something to do with your command path. Here's the thing. LyX exhibited this symptom for *every* previewer except for qpdfview. When I temporarily uninstalled qpdfview so it couldn't be found, it used a second viewer, and no attempt to use any third viewer would displace the second viewer. LyX was obviously going down a list and using the first viewer, on that list, that it found. I found just such a list in reconfigure.py, reordered the list, and changed it to use mupdf, and it used mupdf. So until somebody can show me a way to select a viewer to assign to the eyeballs, my conclusion is the only way to set the eyeballs viewer is to go into reconfigure.py and rearrange the viewer array argument of CheckViewer() in cases where the filetype is PDF. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques Very odd. The config script should check for all the viewers in the list, and all the ones it finds should appear in the select box for the corresponding file type. That works on my system (Linux Mint); I get three viewers sandwiched between None and Custom. Might be worth filing a bug report. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview
Am Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:53:34 -0500 schrieb Steve Litt : > Here's the thing. LyX exhibited this symptom for *every* previewer > except for qpdfview. When I temporarily uninstalled qpdfview so it > couldn't be found, it used a second viewer, and no attempt to use > any third viewer would displace the second viewer. LyX was obviously > going down a list and using the first viewer, on that list, that it > found. I found just such a list in reconfigure.py, reordered the list, > and changed it to use mupdf, and it used mupdf. > > So until somebody can show me a way to select a viewer to assign to the > eyeballs, my conclusion is the only way to set the eyeballs viewer is > to go into reconfigure.py and rearrange the viewer array argument of > CheckViewer() in cases where the filetype is PDF. > > SteveT You could check your new lyxrc.default for all lines containing "mupdf" and add them to the file 'preferences'. This file is not changed by reconfigure. Any entry in preferences will be preferenced over the ones in lyxrc.default. Kornel pgpIuSD0EVreQ.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
