[Bradford] Dead icons in Lyx toolbar

[Darren Drapkin]

A little search on Slackware's sboui installer says, that you may need to 
uninstall your current installation of Latex, and install a new version of 
Latex, such as texlive. 

I know you are not running Slackware, but I could be a version control error 
such as this.

On Sunday 14 Apr 2019 17:13:46 John Robert Hudson via Bradford wrote:
> 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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-- 
Yours &c.
Darren Drapkin