[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread linuxgus
Thank you all for your responses. Doing soime googling around, I discovered that that openSuSE 11.1 has the same problem with evince I encountered. I followed William's advice above and, before firing up sage (as a normal user), I exported the SAGE-BROWSER environment variable as

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
linuxgus wrote: Thank you all for your responses. Doing soime googling around, I discovered that that openSuSE 11.1 has the same problem with evince I encountered. I followed William's advice above and, before firing up sage (as a normal user), I exported the SAGE-BROWSER environment

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread linuxgus
On Jul 19, 3:42 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: What if you set SAGE_BROWSER to kde-open?  That will open different programs, based on the format.  I think it's similar to the apple open command. I did. kdvi was ultimately invoked with exactly the same result as above

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 16, 11:02 pm, linuxgus ka8...@amsat.org wrote: Hi all, If I DON'T use notebook and type a simple program like, sage: t,s=var('t,s') sage: show(laplace(exp(-3*t),t)) an evince window pops up with the error message Unable to open document File type TeX DVI document

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, linuxguska8...@amsat.org wrote: On Jul 19, 3:42 am, Jason Grout jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: What if you set SAGE_BROWSER to kde-open?  That will open different programs, based on the format.  I think it's similar to the apple open command. I

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-19 Thread linuxgus
On Jul 19, 2:54 pm, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: How about if you try sage: latex.pdflatex(True) first? --I did set latex.pdflatex(True) and set the SAGE_BROWSER environment variable to kde-open. This time a PDF reader popped up (as it should) but the content was still

[sage-support] Re: Problem with show

2009-07-17 Thread linuxgus
Thank you for responding. I did not have kdvi installed on my system. It still does the same thing after installing kdvi. As before, I get the message method return sender=:1.3 - dest=:1.31 reply_serial=2 whatever that means. I guess I have to figure out a way to let the desktop (Xfce in my