Here's a little script I wrote that some other people may find useful. I
got annoyed after a while that, if I double-clicked on a LyX file in my
file manager, it would launch a new instance of LyX rather than open the
file in the old one. I figured there had to be some way to deal with
this problem using lyxpipe, and a little poking around on the wiki led
to a solution. Of course, this only works when LyX is run on systems
that support lyxpipe.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=$1;
#Change the next line if you want a different command to be run
LYX='/usr/bin/lyx -geometry 1024x1024+100+100";
#Obviously, this line needs to be set to the location of your lyxpipe
LYXPIPE="$HOME/.lyx/lyxpipe.in";
CMD="file-open";
if [ -e $LYXPIPE ]; then
echo "LYXCMD:lyx-script:$CMD:$FILENAME" > $LYXPIPE;
else
$LYX $1;
fi
Put this somewhere useful, like $HOME/bin/. Then use your file manager's
file association dialog to associate .lyx files with this script.
If LyX crashes and leaves the lyxpipe open, then the script will fail
silently. If anyone knows how we can ping the LyX server to make sure
it's actually running (and do it in bash), I'd love to hear about it.
Richard
