[Bradford] Dead icons in Lyx toolbar

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

The most likely reason is that not all the packages have been downloaded. Go 
to Tools>Reconfigure and, when that has finished, close LyX and, when you 
reopen it, go to Help>LaTeX Configuration which will tell you what packages 
have been installed. Most of them will be completely irrelevant if they are 
not installed but that may give you the first insight if something which looks 
important has not been installed.

In the meantime try Export>DVI - this is what LaTeX used before PDFs became 
open source.

John

On Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:58:53 BST Devo Too via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> After a fascinating introduction to Lyx/Latex/Tex by John at Tuesday's
> BradLUG, I installed Lyx on the PC and, having finally got the laptop
> into a functioning state at the same meeting thanks to David, Lyx on the
> laptop too.
> 
> Initial results using the PC were terrific and easy to achieve. But
> copying the draft report to the laptop, the first four toolbar icons*
> are dead.
> 
> Tried going into the dropdown menus to get a view of the PDF outputs,
> which didn't work either.
> 
> *The icons are "View" (pdf output - image of two eyeballs), "Update"
> (image of two arrows forming a circle, like an old fashioned browser
> "refresh" button), "View master document" (two eyeballs on a file cover)
> and "Update master document" (old refresh arrows on a file cover). The
> third and fourth are also inactive on the PC, not used anyway so not so
> bothered.
> 
> The first one, though, is used constantly.
> 
> I've searched on various terms to find answers, checked permissions,
> double checked to ensure I installed at least the same programmes onto
> the laptop as on the PC (although Latex was already installed when I
> started putting Lyx on the PC), dug around in a few file systems hinted
> at here and there as I've been reading. These were mainly Xorg and
> Nvidia, one of which I still suspect may hold the solution.
> 
> Is this a hint? Sometimes when closing Xfce the ystem comes up with a
> line containing "Waiting for X server to shut down: fatal 10 error (or
> error10?): resource temporarily unavailable - which goes on but runs off
> the screen so I can't see the last part.
> 
> Both boxes have Arch installed. The PC has Gnome and the laptop has Xfce
> as its GUI.
> 
> So can anybody please point me in a direction which may prove fruitful
> in solving this problem?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 
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