Fwd: Re: Issue with Lyx Editor

[Paul A. Rubin]

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Subject:Re: Issue with Lyx Editor
Date:   Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:40:53 +0100
From:   John Beattie 
To: Paul A. Rubin 


I have now seen the same behaviour with Beyond Compare.  Oddly, on one occasion
the sticky dropdown went away without me closing the app.  Race condition of
some sort?

Anyhow, it looks to me like a Qt or Mate bug. I'm expecting it to go away when I
upgrade my distro.

BR, John

Fwd: Re: Issue with Lyx Editor

[Paul A. Rubin]

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Out of curiosity, when a menu sticks, can you dismiss it with the escape 
key?


R/. Don't work this trick, but I see, when I unfold a menu, for example 
in Document --> Settings --> Output --> and finally unfold the menu: 
Default output format, and close the window, appear this menu, and when 
I try for second time, it's seems work fine. I try it for a second one 
and works fine. I don't know what happen.


Ok, great to receive your suggestions and regards. ;-)

2017-06-08 16:47 GMT+02:00 Paul A. Rubin >:


   On 06/08/2017 04:35 AM, Alejandro Peralta Alzate wrote:

Hello Paul,

I have installed the Linux Mint with *MATE enviroment*.

I did the setup and install of LyX throught ppa (release):

>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-devel/release <<

Next step update: >> sudo apt-get update << and finally Install:
>> sudo apt-get install lyx <<.

I attach to this email, the screenshot of the Issue (for more
detailed information - Lyx_Issue.png).

Regards and waitting for your response.


   Alejandro,

   I'm copying this back to the user list, to keep the conversation
   visible to others.

   This is a bit perplexing. I've installed the same .deb file you
   have, from the same source, on the same OS (Mint Rosa), and not
   experienced the persistent menus. The one wrinkle is that, when I
   was on Rosa, I did not use MATE; I had Cinnamon on my desktop and
   Xfce on my laptop. However, since upgrading Mint to 18.0 Sarah (and
   subsequently 18.1 Serena), I've had MATE on my desktop, and not had
   the menu issue.

   I no longer have Mint 2.2.2 on either machine (I'm on 2.2.3), but
   since we installed the same package from the PPA, I assume we were
   both using the same Qt version. I'm not a developer, so I don't know
   the code base, but Richard Heck is, and seems to believe the issue
   would be with Qt. If so, it would apparently have to involve an
   interaction with something external to LyX (CPU timing issue, other
   application interfering, gremlins, Russian hackers, ...).

   Out of curiosity, when a menu sticks, can you dismiss it with the
   escape key?

   Paul




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PhD Candidate - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering - UAB​
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Re: Issue with Lyx Editor

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 06/08/2017 04:35 AM, Alejandro Peralta Alzate wrote:

Hello Paul,

I have installed the Linux Mint with *MATE enviroment*.

I did the setup and install of LyX throught ppa (release):

>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-devel/release <<

Next step update: >> sudo apt-get update << and finally Install: >> 
sudo apt-get install lyx <<.


I attach to this email, the screenshot of the Issue (for more detailed 
information - Lyx_Issue.png).


Regards and waitting for your response.


Alejandro,

I'm copying this back to the user list, to keep the conversation visible 
to others.


This is a bit perplexing. I've installed the same .deb file you have, 
from the same source, on the same OS (Mint Rosa), and not experienced 
the persistent menus. The one wrinkle is that, when I was on Rosa, I did 
not use MATE; I had Cinnamon on my desktop and Xfce on my laptop. 
However, since upgrading Mint to 18.0 Sarah (and subsequently 18.1 
Serena), I've had MATE on my desktop, and not had the menu issue.


I no longer have Mint 2.2.2 on either machine (I'm on 2.2.3), but since 
we installed the same package from the PPA, I assume we were both using 
the same Qt version. I'm not a developer, so I don't know the code base, 
but Richard Heck is, and seems to believe the issue would be with Qt. If 
so, it would apparently have to involve an interaction with something 
external to LyX (CPU timing issue, other application interfering, 
gremlins, Russian hackers, ...).


Out of curiosity, when a menu sticks, can you dismiss it with the escape 
key?


Paul

Re: Issue with Lyx Editor

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 06/07/2017 10:51 AM, Alejandro Peralta Alzate wrote:

Dear
​Lyx development group​
,

I have an issue with LyX editor.

But I want to know how to notify and where to post it
​?​
.

It's referent to menus. When I​ c​lick​ to an item, for example 
preferences of LyX (

​T​
ools --> Preferences), and close the window of preference after 
configuring, appear like a phantom in the screen (See the image 
attached to this email)

​ and this "phantom" doesn't disappear from the screen.​


​I think is not necessary to install qt before installing Lyx, I don't 
know what happen.​


I installed the software on a Distro Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa 64 bits, and 
the version of TexLive is: 2017. The version of Lyx is: 2.2.2


Regards and waitting for your response. Thanks in advance.



Before upgrading to Mint Serena, I had the same configuration and did 
not experience any menus persisting beyond what they should.


I can confirm that you do not need to do anything to install Qt (at 
least not if you installed LyX from a .deb file; I've never built it 
myself).


You can get the Qt version used by LyX from Help > About LyX... > 
Version, at least as of 2.2.3. I think it was there in 2.2.2 as well; if 
not, it's definitely on the Build Info tab.


It might be useful to know whether you installed one of Liv's .deb 
files, built from scratch or got LyX some other way. Also, which desktop 
environment (Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, Xfce) do you use?


Cheers,
Paul

Re: Issue with Lyx Editor

[Richard Heck]

On 06/07/2017 10:51 AM, Alejandro Peralta Alzate wrote:
> Dear
> ​Lyx development group​
> ,
>
> I have an issue with LyX editor.
>
> But I want to know how to notify and where to post it
> ​?​
> .
>
> It's referent to menus. When I​ c​lick​ to an item, for example
> preferences of LyX (
> ​T​
> ools --> Preferences), and close the window of preference after
> configuring, appear like a phantom in the screen (See the image
> attached to this email)
> ​ and this "phantom" doesn't disappear from the screen.​
>
>
> ​I think is not necessary to install qt before installing Lyx, I don't
> know what happen.​

Presumably, the package manager does this for you.

> I installed the software on a Distro Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa 64 bits, and
> the version of TexLive is: 2017. The version of Lyx is: 2.2.2

Just so I understand. The problem is that one of LyX's menus just stays
there? Even though you are not using it?

If so, then that looks like a problem with Qt. LyX does not control
these sorts of menu actions by itself, but delegates them to Qt.

Richard

Issue with Lyx Editor

[Alejandro Peralta Alzate]

Dear
​Lyx development group​
,

I have an issue with LyX editor.

But I want to know how to notify and where to post it
​?​
.

It's referent to menus. When I​ c​lick​ to an item, for example preferences
of LyX (
​T​
ools --> Preferences), and close the window of preference after
configuring, appear like a phantom in the screen (See the image attached to
this email)
​ and this "phantom" doesn't disappear from the screen.​


​I think is not necessary to install qt before installing Lyx, I don't know
what happen.​

I installed the software on a Distro Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa 64 bits, and the
version of TexLive is: 2017. The version of Lyx is: 2.2.2

Regards and waitting for your response. Thanks in advance.


-- 
​
Regards,
Alejandro Peralta Alzate
Electronic Engineering - M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering
​
PhD Candidate - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering - UAB​
​