It seems the GUI is just incredibly slow, taking maybe 30 to 60 seconds to respond to an event. That includes even trivial operations like clicking somewhere and having the cursor appear. In the interim I see continuous network activity at about 265KiB/s.
Perhaps this is some problem with fonts so that I'm getting bitmaps? Even so, it seems to be repainting the entire window whenever anything changes. I was able to use the GUI to export to Lyx 2.0 format, and I can work on that on L. AFAIK I wasn't using any features that require a later version. So my immediate problem of working on the file is solved via the conversion, and the not being able to work remotely issue is at least partly explained. I'd still like to know more, like why the remote access is so slow and how to convert the format from the command line. Ross ________________________________________ From: Boylan, Ross Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 1:46 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: LyX GUI unresponsive over ssh I have a LyX document created in the current version of Debian that I am having trouble working with from an older version. The document was created with LyX 2.1.2 built against Qt 4.8.6 on Xorg 1.12.4 (remote machine R). My local machine (call it L) has LyX 2.0.3 against Qt 4.8.1, Xorg 1.12.4. 1. Copying the .lyx file from R to L and attempting to open it on L -> message the file is "from a newer version of LyX and the lyx2Lyx script failed to convert it". 2. Using ssh -Y to connect from L to R and launching LyX on R up the GUI on L. Moving the mouse around in the window changes the cursor, but clicking has no effect in the file menus, the main window or the scrollbar. I was not able to find any error reports on the terminal from which LyX was launched or in .xsession-errors on either R or L. I was able to run remotely from another machine (call it A) that was also running an older version of Debian (though maybe not quite as old). And I can run and interact with the xfontself, launched from R, on L. Aside from possible software differences between L and A, their connections to R differed. A's connection was high-speed and probably not subject to a lot of port blocking. L's connection is slower, somewhat unreliable, and through a router that does very selective port forwarding. Downgrading the file on R seems as if it might solve the problem, though doing so without being able to run the GUI is a bit challenging (maybe somehow use lyx -x and LFUN_BUFFER_EXPORT, but I'm not sure of the exact syntax?). And it would be nice if I could get the remote GUI to work, or at least be able to diagnose why it isn't working. Any suggestions? Thanks. Ross Boylan
