|
Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Lyx - Associations Not Configured | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | Alex Radu <exigentsky> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | Berthold Gunreben <bg> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P4 - Low | CC: | aj, ro |
| Version: | RC 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | SUSE Other | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
|
Description
Alex Radu
2005-08-27 01:57:15 UTC
I had no problem, viewing a lyx document with the default installation of lyx. Did you use YaST to install lyx? Else, did you run SuSEconfig after the install? No, it's not about viewing Lyx documents.It's about viewing the Lyx document and other such things as a PDF. Select PDF from the view menu. Try this: 1. make a new sample Lyx document 2. Go to the View menu and select PDF It should be something like this: "Cannot view file No information for viewing PDF." Marvel at the error. :p This is a necessary step because Lyx is not WYSIWYG and so you still need to preview it as a PDF to see what your clients would see. Anyway, this is pretty easy to fix. Here's how: Edit->Preferences->File Formats->PDF and then for viewer type something like KPDF and click modify. Then go to the (dvipdfm) and (pdflatex) entries and do the same thing. See it's pretty easy to fix, but it is still frustrating that this feature is broken by default. Sorry, as I said earlier, I cannot reproduce. I did exactly what you proposed, and had no problems viewing the PDF. Have you configured Lyx's file format associations before? If not, I have no idea why you cannot reproduce it. What program opens when you go to View->PDF anyway? I'll check on this when I install Beta 4. ok, I see now the problem. lyx configure searches for acrobat, acrord32, gsview32, acroread, gv, ghostview and xpdf. If neither of these is installed, it will not configure this. added kpdf to lyx configure script. this solution is wrong (and will not even work ...) changing configure would only change behaviour if the app in question is installed during build (see #neededforbuild). but detecting this in configure is the wrong way to do this anyway, can't this be done at runtime ? This configure is run by SuSEconfig.lyx. It has nothing to do with building lyx, but checks at runtime what software is installed. This is still not fixed. None of the PDF associations are configured in Lyx by default and I get an error. please do a rm -r ~/.lyx run lyx in a console lyx | tee lyx.configure and attach lyx.configure file to this report I can't. The system doesn't boot graphically anymore. Also when I stry to start X manually using startx it crashes and gives me some error. I want to help, but I don't want to install the same SUSE RC just for this information. I'll give you the necessary information when SUSE 10 is released or when another RC is out. Sorry, actually I think I could, since I can login in the console. Problem is that after I do what you say, I have no idea how to extract the file and get it to you. OK, I did the first step (rm -r ~/.lyx) and it didn't complain. However when I tried to run lyx at the console and when I typed "lyx | tee lyx.configure" it gave this error: "lyx: cannot connect to X server" I installed SUSE 10 EvalDVD and Lyx has everything configured right, PDFS work without any fiddling. Should this be closed? thanks for the feedback. closing this bug now. |